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Besides, times were so hard in the East that the majority of the youthful adventurers who were caught by the fever had nothing to lose except their lives.
Before the road was built adventurers had arrived in Cariboo expecting to pick up pails of nuggets at the bottom of a rainbow.
At almost precisely the same instant, a chorus of ferocious yells and cries broke out, and from all sides there rushed on the aerial adventurers a horde of short-statured Indians.
Paralyzed by the very suddenness and utter unexpectedness of it all, the adventurers for a time merely clung to the rails of their swaying, madly careening craft.
Half-dressed, and wholly bewildered, the adventurerswere being thrown about like so many ninepins.
The attack by the adventurers appeared to enrage them.
By noon the Discoverer, none the worse for her involuntary flight into the icy realms of space, was able to resume her voyage over the desolate peaks and abysses of unknown depths, above which the adventurerswere now soaring.
It was morning in the large compound, or garden, adjoining the consul’s house, and our adventurers were grouped about an odd collection of articles that had formed the contents of several big packing cases.
It was an important feature of the Discoverer’s equipment, inasmuch as the adventurers expected to “live on the country” to a great extent, for Bolivia abounds in game.
Silent and stunned the adventurers turned the Discoverer’s prow toward the westward once more.
As the adventurers rushed out of the cabin, they came face to face with a scene in which Ding-dong Bell was the dominating factor.
This was not encouraging news, but theadventurers resolved to make the best of it, and guard against surprises by keeping a good watch.
As before, the evening meal was eaten on the ground, and the adventurers utilized the cabin of the Discoverer for sleeping quarters.
The adventurers returned to Missouri during the fall; their profit had been immense, although the capital they had employed had been very small.
Jane was one of those suffocating adventurers whom circumstance had fenced in.
These adventurers have actually robbed the Louvre, the Vatican, the Pitti Gallery, the palaces of kings and sultans.
Old grey-headed adventurers talked with evident pleasure of the exciting adventures of their younger days, and of their frequent hairbreadth escapes.
No measures, however, on a large scale for recovering the precious cargo were adopted until the year 1845, when people were startled to hear that a party of adventurers were going to sink a dollar-mine in the sea.
On the following morning, accordingly, the three adventurers set forth, and on reaching Lord Chelmsford's quarters, found Hardy already there.
The chief danger arose from the incessant screaming of the monkeys, which rose in such a chorus that the adventurers were afraid that the attention of the occupants of the kraal might be attracted by it.
But the country is full of lawless characters of all kinds,--escaped convicts, bush robbers, and adventurers who have lost everything at the diamond fields.
In July 1860 the services of two American adventurers who had had some military experience in Central America and elsewhere were enlisted and taken into the pay of this merchants' guild.
Their names were Ward and Burgevine, and they were both adventurers of an unscrupulous and unattractive type.
But the region was extremely rich, as our adventurers found out very soon after their arrival.
A rush of miners had taken place in consequence of the reports of the successful adventurers who returned to Sacramento for supplies, and, in the course of a few weeks, the whole valley was swarming with eager gold-hunters.
So that, in the course of a fortnight, our adventurers found themselves comparatively rich men.
There was another inconvenience attending this style of mining which Larry had not foreseen when he adopted it, and which caused the tent of our adventurers to become a sort of public nuisance.
That evening our three adventurers occupied the back seat of a large concert-room in one of the most crowded thoroughfares of the town, patiently awaiting the advent of the performers.
The adventurers went in twenty-five ships; more than half were lost on the way, but eleven ships landed safely and founded a colony in Greenland.
He was a leading spirit of the Merchant Adventurers who, in Edward's reign, first opened up trade by sea with Russia.
That a joint-stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
The quantities of those metals which the firstadventurers are said to have found there, had probably been very much magnified, as well as the fertility of the mines which were wrought immediately after the first discovery.
What those adventurers were reported to have found, however, was sufficient to inflame the avidity of all their countrymen.
The method described in the text was by no means either the must common or the most expensive one in which those adventurers sometimes raised money by circulation.
The first adventurers of all the other nations of Europe who attempted to make settlements in America, were animated by the like chimerical views; but they were not equally successful.
The presumptuous hope of success seems to act here as upon all other occasions, and to entice so many adventurers into those hazardous trades, that their competition reduces the profit below what is sufficient to compensate the risk.
In 1698, however, the private adventurers were subjected to a duty of ten per cent.
The mine-adventurers company has been long ago bankrupt.
Do we not know that the jealous vigilance with which Spain excluded the ships of other nations from her Transatlantic possessions turned men who would otherwise have been honest merchant adventurers into buccaneers?
The French, who had directed their course to the more northern parts of the continent, had been among the first adventurers to North America.
On this gentleman theadventurers turned their eyes, and he was placed at the head of the enterprise.
It was ordained that four general courts of theadventurers should be holden annually, for the determination of affairs of importance, and weekly meetings were directed, for the transaction of common business.
He seems to have been upon the whole a fair commander, but the fatal mistake of all these adventurers soon brought him to the brink of ruin.
Desiring the adventurersto wait a few minutes, he then withdrew and locked the door after him.
Adventurers of a low order, swindlers on a petty scale, and street thieves who have been caught with their hands in the pocket of a gentleman or the muff of a lady, are the sort of persons they usually deal with.
Many restless adventurers sought distinction and found it in the Algerian campaigns; and Algeria was the principal training-ground for those generals who were afterwards to aid Prince Louis Napoleon in executing his coup d'État.
About five-and-twenty Spaniards held the harbor when these adventurers approached to take possession.
The children of adventurers may inherit the vices of their parents; but Nature silently puts her fragrant graft into the withering tree, and it learns to bud with unexpected fruit.
But wherever it went or wherever it paused, New York gave its peculiar stamp; and the adventurers were amused to find One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street inchoately like Twenty-third Street and Fourteenth Street in its shops and shoppers.
Meanwhile Almagro had arrived with a much-needed reinforcement; and adventurers of all sorts, from Spain and her western colonies, soon began to flock to the newly opened land of gold.
Under Domingos Irala, these six hundred surviving Spanish adventurers founded Asuncion in 1536, the first settlement of the valley of the Plate.
The reports of the abundance of brazil-wood, however, induced private adventurers to go and cut that valuable commodity.
Private adventurers came for brazil-wood and the French poached more and more frequently.
The Paulista discoverers of the mines soon became involved in quarrels with the swarms of adventurers who poured in from Portugal.
The rough adventurers fell to fighting among themselves, and their cruelties often drove the patient and submissive Indians into rebellion.
About the same time other adventurers came pouring over the Andes from northern Chile, and this current soon joined that from the north.
Accordingly, they divided and one party remained on the dry ground near the river, while two hundred desperate adventurers pressed on through the wilderness, hoping to reach the Bolivian plateau.
There followed a new influx of gentleman adventurers who scoured the coast in every direction seeking another defenceless empire and mines as good as those of Mexico.
The southern part of the great Bolivian plateau seems to have submitted quietly to the Spanish conquerors, and the stream of adventurers passed on to the south.
Spaniards swarmed over to Hayti, and thence expeditions were sent out in every direction, headed by private adventurersbearing their sovereign's commission.
Cabot and his band of adventurers determined to neglect their surveying, trusting that the discovery of silver mines would excuse their disobedience.
A few years later the north-western coast of South America was granted out to noble adventurers who undertook its conquest and exploitation with their own means.
Adventurers and rebels cropped up on every side, and by force of arms lopped off some portion of the Mogul's territories.
The days had passed when men trembled in his presence or at mention of his power, for on every side powerful princes and upstart adventurers defied the ruler of Hindustan, and carved out new fortunes and new possessions for themselves.
The adventurerswere also extremely careful in the choice of inferior officers, and even as far as possible in procuring the best private men that could be found.
There was at this time an English factory in the Sherbro river, having a considerable trade in Cam-wood, which is used in dying red; but the adventurers do not appear to have had any intercourse with their countrymen at this place.
The adventurers in this voyage saw fourteen or fifteen, some of which were seven or eight leagues in length, and three or four leagues broad, pretty high yet flat.
Our adventurers essayed to ascend the river still farther, but found it impossible to make headway against the rapids of St. Louis, which had formerly presented an insuperable barrier to Cartier's westward progress.
Just as the adventurers were about to return to Trinidad, they encountered a terrific storm in the broad mouth of the river Capuri, and were obliged to lie in the dark, close to the shore.
The wife of one of the adventurers who was present, threw by chance a piece of it into the fire, and it burned so long that at last it was taken out and quenched in a little vinegar, when lo!
Sometimes the adventurers suffered greatly from thirst and from the excessive heat of the climate, since Guiana lies all in the torrid zone, the hottest part of the earth.
We must guard the reader, at this point, from supposing that our adventurers were always tumbling out of frying-pans into fires, or that they never enjoyed repose.
It is not necessary that we should follow our adventurers in all their windings through the mighty fastnesses of the far West.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adventurers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
