I may conclude that you wish me to adventure upon the redemption of these two ladies in Barbary, upon the hazard of being repaid by Mrs. Godwin when she recovers her estate.
An unexpected adventure takes place, which raises him to the station of a hero, and promises great things to come.
The sequel of this last adventure proved richer than all the rest.
Just as the patrol leader had remarked, the crown of the hill was in plain sight only a little distance beyond where Gusty had met with his strange adventure and passed through an experience he would not be likely to forget soon.
A continual change of place, and change of object, promises a continual succession of adventure and gratification of curiosity.
And there he liked to lie, staring up into the sky and dreaming those dreams of youth and adventure which are the heritage of us all.
She was thinking of the portrait of the unknown hero, and the adventure connected with him; she was ignorant of Honorât's allusion.
The day of the adventure in the gorges of Ollioules Hadji had described the old gentleman whom Erebus had just saved, and the young girl, to his hosts in Marseilles, who gave him the name of Raimond V.
Her heart beat violently; she recalled the crystal vase, and a secret presentiment told her that this picture had some mysterious connection with the adventure among the rocks of Ollioules.
Up to that time, her youthful and lively imagination had found inexhaustible nourishment in the strange adventure of the rocks of Ollioules.
As it was now, if he explained at all, it would have to be down to the minutest detail, and he could foresee what the Regent would have to say about any such adventure on his part.
I would thou couldst stand the whole brunt of this adventure thyself, De Bracy," answered Front-de-Boeuf.
Give in your own words an account of the adventure that befell the two.
For it was brave little Ally who, if there was anything to adventure about, always adventured.
The first adventure shall be thine; The king did smiling say.
His request granted, he obtains a promise of having the first adventure assigned him that shall offer.
Both the author of the following ballad, and others who have written on the same plan, seem to have copied a very ancient poem, intitled John the Reeve, which is built on an adventure of the same kind, that happened between K.
The adventure is claimed by the young knight Sir Lybius: the king assents; the messengers are dissatisfied, and object to his youth; but are forced to acquiesce.
When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from humbler toil having commenced.
The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me.
The weary brain-torturing months of fever had left their trail behind, a lassitude of spirit and a sluggishness of blood, a quenching of the desire to roam and court adventure and hardship.
He was engaged upon some difficult and dangerous work for the good of mankind, and she had many a midnight ride to warn him to beware, and many a wild adventure in an open boat, going out in the dark for news.
Her night-dress was wet with dew, and her feet were scratched and dirty; but she was too much exhilarated by the exercise and adventure to feel any discomfort.
Later in the day she described her morning's adventure to Angelica, and asked her if she knew who Mrs. Merton Merivale was.
I will acquaint you with my scheme; but you, like a true knight errant, must first swear to undertake no other adventure until this is achieved.
As that adventure was long antecedent to the events which are the subject of these letters, it has been thought better to suppress the whole of that correspondence.
But let me finish to my own liking this business which I undertook at your request: remember if you make Danceny inconstant, you deprive the adventure of its poignancy.
I have also some news to tell, said she, and immediately related my adventure with an exactitude that did honour to her historian's accuracy.
Oh, there you was very right; every one would have read your adventure in them.
So you know nothing at all about this famous adventure which separated the inseparables.
In recompence, I promise you to bring the adventure of your pupil to a good issue, and to employ my time as much for her as my lovely prude.
As to the rest, he related his adventure with tolerable propriety, especially the last event.
This box contained all the letters relative to her adventure with M.
And the value I set on this adventure will not prevent my engaging in others, or even sacrificing this to some more agreeable one.
And for such a curious object you refuse to obey me; you bury yourself in your aunt's sepulchre; you abandon a most delicious adventure that is marked out for the advancement of your reputation.
Since I have reflected on it, I can't reconcile it to myself to have had the idea of putting an end to an adventure before I had it in my power to ruin the heroine.
The convent is the only asylum for a widow; and if she persists in so laudable a resolution, I shall add to all the obligations I already lay under, the celebrity this adventure will now have.
The only thing that alarms me is the time this adventure will take up; for I am resolved to risk nothing.
It is to me even you are indebted, for the adventureof the Viscountess--It pleases me.
It was all so secret and romantic, this glorious adventure rushing to fulfilment, under the prosy surface of everyday life.
I am going to tell you of a new and fascinating adventure upon which I am about to embark.
The Rannys were having the adventure of their lives with the secret farm, an adventure shared with equal enthusiasm by their co-conspirators.
She reflected upon the strange and horrible adventure that had befallen her, and, without making any excuse for her ignorance, deemed herself guilty as well as the unhappiest woman in the world.
Since you deem me so truthful," said Longarine, "I will be so bold as to relate an adventure that befel a very great Prince, who surpasses in worth all others of his time.
He was content to leave this doubtful adventure in her hands--whichever way it ended, he would come to some issue with her before he left.
Luc felt sorry for him, but contemptuous too; he wondered if he should see him again entering the house in the Rue du Bac, or if the adventure of the coffin had caused him to abandon his place of rendezvous.
On the day following the pitiful little adventure with the Countess Koklinska he again saw the graceful cavalier enter the house opposite.
Although the storm had not ceased, as our thirst increased and the water killed us, we resolved to commend ourselves to God our Lord, and adventure the peril of the sea rather than await the end which thirst made certain.
The morning after this adventure Svengali woke up in his garret with a tremendous longing to spend a happy day; for it was a Sunday, and a very fine one.
When the doctor reached Shanghai, he experienced some hesitation before he attempted an adventure so uncertain in its issue.
Other gentlemen to their ability joined unto him, resolving to adventure their substance and lives in the same cause.
It was a desperate adventure that--to try and take the Germans in the flank; and Gallieni's advisers told him there were not soldiers enough in his command to do it.
I half expected him to pretend ingenuousness, and spring the tale of Dierdre's adventure with Herter on the company.
I started this adventure for what I could get out of it.
Ma foi, it's a goodadventure when the German guns are not asleep!
Brian and I snatched the story of our day's adventure from his mouth for Mother Beckett; and luckily he was too tired to give her a new version.
We had made a long détour out of the world, but now we were back in the familiar places, where life itself makes all the running, and we are carried to meet adventurewithout a stroke of the paddle.
On Saturday, describing some paltry adventure at a duck-hunt, he broke a plate into a score of fragments.
The lads go forth pricked with the spirit of adventure and the desire to rise in life, and leave their homespun elders grumbling and wondering over the event.
It is all excellent, from the scenes where Alan is hiding under a haystack (suggested by an adventure of the Chevalier Johnstone after Culloden), and the first meeting with that good daughter of Clan Alpine and of James Mor, onwards.
There are other degrees of feyness, as of punishment, besides the capital; and I was now led by my good spirits into an adventure which I relate in the interest of future donkey-drivers.
Europe and not meet with an adventureworth the name.
His health and his fugitive life imposed on him those limitations against which his taste did not rebel, for his taste led him to the past, and to adventure in a present not English, but exotic.
