emprise
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At the moment when the tension becomes unbearable, the young man at the controls, face ashen with anxiety and exhaustion, slips on his helmet, slips the leash of fate and high emprise.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus was concluded the twelfth and final year of an archeological emprise which has revealed much about the Sumerians, oldest of known civilized peoples.
From Time Magazine Archive
One has the sense at times of spying from ambush upon a promise of emprise and some great gain.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
George Rogers Clark had the look and bearing of a man born for deeds of great emprise.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
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