emprise

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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

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

George Rogers Clark had the look and bearing of a man born for deeds of great emprise.

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker

It may be a d�mon of pent and high emprise, That looks on my soul till my soul hides and cries, Loath to rebuke my soul and bid it arise.

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee