Perhaps the most fascinating tale of all is Mr. Fitts' true story of an adventurous American boy, who receives from his dying father an ancient bit of vellum, which the latter obtained in a curious way.
Captain's Kidd's Gold=: The True Story of an Adventurous Sailor Boy.
Money-grubbing was left to the virtuous bourgeois beloved of a bourgeois king, to unscrupulous Nucingens andadventurous de Girardins.
This was to make acquaintance with all of that adventurous race comprised between the buccaneer and the smuggler; to learn their various wants, when they voyaged, and for what, became my province.
The least eventful of lives would beadventurous if placed alongside of mine.
This, considering the circumstances, was an adventurous voyage, a brave exploring expedition sent from the arctic regions to make discoveries in the mysterious world at the south.
But there is a charm also in the more free and adventurous life of partisan warfare, where, if the total sphere be humbler, yet the individual has more relative importance, and the sense of action is more personal and keen.
Then it had seemed that life was like this adventurousjourney through the gray meadows, past the silent woods, on into the river below, and the great sea, far, far away!
He knew that, with mostadventurous soldiers like himself, the food for which they hungered was gold.
Getting motion pictures is the adventurous part of the business, for this work requires operators and actors who are athletes and who do not know the meaning of fear.
While the boy's friend was telling him these things about the adventurouslife of the motion-picture man, the listener sat spellbound.
Throughout his life Tesla has been more interested in the adventurous and scientific side of electricity than the commercial side, and all of his inventions smack of the marvellous.
Full of ardent longings and unbounded enthusiasm, as were most well-born youths in those adventurous days, he was just a little less confident than Gaston of the brilliant success that was to attend upon their feats of arms.
Leaving Charley to pursue his adventurous career among the Indians, we will introduce our reader to a new scene, and follow for a time the fortunes of our friend Harry Somerville.
This idea seemed ever present, and served many times to hold him back from adventurous pursuits and untried schemes.
With this redundancy of the paper currency there arose in that country also a spirit of adventurousspeculation embracing the whole range of human enterprise.
It was an adventurous life he led, full of dark and shadowy passages which we cannot understand and so perhaps cannot pardon.
He lived an adventurous and often an unedifying life, and seems to have been a jovial sensualist caring little what kind of reputation he might obtain in the eyes of the world about him.
The warlike and adventurous spirit of Northern and Central Spain preferred epic to lyric poetry: and the outcome was the cantar de gesta and the romance, the lyrico-narrative or ballad poem.
It is to its mines that South Australia owes its good fortune, its population, and its riches, and not to any secret of political economy bestowed upon it by adventurous theorists.
And what a noble scene for this our first adventurous voyage, upon that broad river or rather arm of the sea!
I said that what Ssema tells us is what you would expect the truth to be; this way:--After half a cycle of that adventurous and imaginative spirit, eyes jaundiced a little would surely find excuse enough for querulous vision.
It might be but one of the ordinary incidents of his adventurous life, and was scarce retained in his memory?
Nothing suited his adventurous spirit so well as the leadership in enterprises which to other men seemed hopeless, and his judgment and skill equaled his daring.
After a wild and adventurous career in the Indian ocean he came to the American coast, and showing himself boldly in the streets of Boston was arrested, sent to England for trial and hanged.
The adventurous fighting was chiefly done on the water, and the hero of it was Silas Talbot, of Providence.
I have passed through many grave dangers too; have had many hair-breadth escapes in the service of my royal master, who is of a very adventurous disposition.
I have lived a hard, adventurous life, and am now getting old.
The five adventurous fliers were borne along by the wind in a fashion which can be better imagined than described.
Moreover in the Cloister Reade challenges comparison with Scott on Scott's own ground--the ground of sustained adventurous narrative--and the advantage is not with Scott.
The characters had the same adventurous irresponsibility, and exhibit the same irrelevancies and futilities.
It was an adventurous voyage--appropriately so--for it was his last journey in this world.
