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
The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.
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 house of life, the father, mother, and their child,—these were the sacred three, and it might be her high emprise to keep their union holy.
From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown
It was a bold emprise on which he was bent, and the time was short.
From Clover and Blue Grass by Eliza Calvert Hall
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