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
Their work is done: their high emprise Hath crowned thee, and the great stars keep The secrets of their histories.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
Their dames had cause long after their high emprise to rue.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
