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
And lo, a blade for a knight’s emprise Filled the fine empty sheath of a man.—
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
Where were now the high resolves—the lofty emprise of a short half-hour since?
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
