venturer

Example Sentences

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He had gone in a tubby wooden craft, the winds his carrier, across oceans that were pathless, except to the venturer.

From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by Milne, James

Also there was that venturer of the great beauty and the silken curls who had spoken so prettily.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

A magic in that gaze Draws me, mad venturer!

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes

My father was an inveterate trader, and the year after our coming he joined with another venturer in buying the standing crop of wheat in Hoopa Valley, on the Trinity River.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)

Instantly the venturer was up and at the flap, peering outside.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)