We are by no means disposed to look invidiously on the enterprising spirit exhibited abroad for securing a closer connection with a country, the great mercantile wealth of which is yet, comparatively speaking, untouched.
William Wormley was at that time one of the most enterprising and influential Colored men of Washington, and was the original agent of the "Liberator" newspaper for this district.
The present and succeeding generation, at least, will have to pay off some heavy obligations in the next sixty or seventy years, and then the city should he immensely the richer for its enterprising policy.
Yet I know for a fact that this latter firm make some nice solid profits out of their quiet business, though nothing perhaps at all comparable with their more enterprising rival.
Birmingham, as I have remarked, is sufficiently enterprising not to let opportunities slip through its fingers.
I sometimes think that if an enterprising merchant were to try and place an order for a million gross of steel pens at 1d.
Birmingham, like other modernenterprising centres, goes moving on "down the ringing grooves of change.
The log shanties had been put up by an enterprising settler to accommodate sportsmen who might penetrate to this far part of the wilds in search of moose or caribou.
Among his college classmates he is regarded as a bit of a hero; for, in spite of his comparative youth, he is an enterprising traveller and a veteran camper, whose camp-fire has blazed in some of the wildest solitudes of his native land.
Kudara was then ruled by a very enterprising prince (Yo-chang).
The extracts printed from English newspapers were a month old, and even this was considered enterprising journalism.
Fitz-Adelm, a subtle intriguer with an eye for money, probably seemed a fitter instrument for his purpose than any enterprising soldier.
And it argues volumes for the culture of our enterprising and fair city that not one word of English was heard among the encouraging and approving shouts that were hurled at the smiling prima donna.
He was as alert, daring, and enterprising an editor as the West has ever produced.
As a general thing, the tribes that have followed the practice of flattening the skull are inferior in intellect, less stirring and enterprising in their habits, and far more degraded in their morals than other tribes.
McLaughlin was formerly an agent in the Northwest Fur Company of Montreal; he was one of the most enterprising and active in conducting the war between that association and the Hudson's Bay Company.
Being a quick and handy boy, he grew into an energetic and enterprising man; settled in a colony, and in the course of time realised a large fortune.
The writer alludes to the author of the Spectators covertly ("we have had an enterprising Genius of late") and quotes all three of the ballad essays repeatedly.
Like all his fellows, he is an enterprisingsavage in that he is constantly on the lookout for forest products which can be turned to account in everyday life.
He is a "kangany," an enterprising native who serves the planter in the double role of recruiting-sergeant and overseer.
An enterprising establishment proposed to furnish all the hymn-books to a congregation not abundantly blessed with this world's goods, provided it might insert a little advertisement.
And in this incredibly short space of time the money was raised by those public spirited, enterprising men.
The Romans, dispirited at the attitude of their allies, and at variance among themselves, could for some months after Gubazes' death have offered but little resistance to an enterprising enemy.
Sapor had seen, with some disquiet, the sceptre of the Roman world assumed by an enterprising and courageous youth, inured to warfare and ambitious of military glory.
Chance, as so frequently happens, favoured the captain by selecting the most energetic and enterprising men.
The Count de Lhorailles, in dying, had borne with him the hopes of the adventurers, whom he had only kept together through his resolute and enterprising character.
From the moment I met you, you appeared to me to be self-reliant, enterprising boys, who mixed coolness and common sense with courage.
In that volume, we followed our youthful andenterprising heroes through the great Sierra range, and learned of their clever flouting of the schemes of the same band of rascals whom they re-encountered in the South Seas.
Thanks to these adroit and enterprising middle-men, Egypt had a large foreign trade without either ships, sailors, or merchant-adventurers.
The Sebassas 'are more active and enterprising than the Milbank tribes, but the greatest thieves and robbers on the coast.
As a general thing the tribes that have followed the practice of flattening the skull are inferior in intellect, less stirring and enterprising in their habits, and far more degraded in their morals than other tribes.
The Sebassas are 'more active andenterprising than the Millbank tribes.
Privately he cherishes the hope, being a swift vehement enterprising kind of man, to oust Fouquet; and perhaps to have Glatz Fortress taken, before his Russians come!
A most inventive, enterprising being; no end to his contrivances and unexpected outbreaks; especially when you have him jammed into a corner, and fancy it is all over with him!
Jakwaina, an enterprising Tewan who lives not far from Isba, the spring near the trail to Hano, has also erected a modern house near the Sikyatki spring, but it had not been completed at the time of our stay.
These are of modern construction and are cultivated by an enterprising Hopi who, as previously mentioned, has erected a habitable dwelling on one of the western mounds from the stones of the old ruin.
Ah, there is a brave and enterprising officer; if there are many on the sea like him, they'll give the King's admirals trouble enough.
For his services at Bunker Hill he was made a colonel; and a practical, enterprising officer he proved to be.
The patriot doctor had just received a hasty line from Prescott, more than likely written in the saddle, and was delighted at the arrival of these four active, enterprising young spirits.
Three years after the enterprising incursion of the N'gombi, he came to the Kiko country on his half-yearly visit.
To combine in one intelligence Haber's circumscribed vision, naive self confidence, and enterprising activity with Enyhardt's sublime idealism and knowledge of good and evil is outside the range of possibility.
The thick fair mustache had abandoned its enterprising upward curl, and now hung down straight and long.
