emprise

Example Sentences

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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

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

The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a bold emprise on which he was bent, and the time was short.

From Clover and Blue Grass by Hall, Eliza Calvert

The unbridled passions of the human soul Linked with the crucifix in his emprise.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt