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Example sentences for "ventured"

Lexicographically close words:
ventrolateral; vents; ventum; ventur; venture; venturers; ventures; venturesome; venturing; venturous
  1. Normans sheltered, and slew them as they ventured forth like rats from a burning house!

  2. Theodred, almost involuntarily, in a low tone; 'hast thou ventured so far?

  3. When Eadgyth ventured a question as to what had detained her to such a late hour, the countess smiled and kissed her.

  4. The last words were uttered with a careless contempt that was absolutely sublime, and the blustering mercenary no longer ventured to detain her.

  5. He sent scouts to the adjacent villages, but not a man ventured to join his standard.

  6. No serious historian, except Sandford, has ventured to bring forward the charge directly.

  7. There remained the right of conquest with the aid of French mercenaries, and he ventured to put it forward.

  8. The river nymph would have told the goddess all she had witnessed, but dared not, for fear of Pluto; so she ventured merely to take up the girdle which Proserpine had dropped in her flight, and float it to the feet of the mother.

  9. At last the grandson of Bellerophon, Sarpedon, son of Jove and Laodamia, ventured to oppose the Greek warrior.

  10. By their unerring fiery darts they subdued the giant Tityus, who not only had obstructed the peaceful ways to the oracle of Delphi, but had ventured to insult the mother of the twin deities.

  11. The ground, therefore, was sound on which Lord George cautiously, and after due reflection, ventured to place his foot.

  12. Some of its members had made terms with Nebuchadnezzar; and it would appear that only Tyre, Judah, and Ammon ventured on open defiance of his power.

  13. Ezekiel himself was well aware of this, and would never have ventured to publish his vision if he had thought it all out for himself.

  14. Her seamen had ventured beyond the Pillars of Hercules, and undertook distant Atlantic voyages to the Canary Islands on the south and the coasts of Britain on the north.

  15. Renan has ventured on the assertion that a deity with a proper name is necessarily a false god.

  16. First,' he said, 'I wish to tell you a little deception I ventured to practice on you.

  17. The fiery spook, it is said, still makes its nightly trips to Diamond Island, but no more investigating parties have ventured across to solve the mystery.

  18. Sue ventured to add a sentence to her prayer.

  19. Sue ventured to ask, and her doll hung limp from her right hand.

  20. His shyness almost entirely disappeared, and he ventured to talk, taking care to disguise his ideas somewhat in apologetic phrases, wrapping them in cotton, as it were.

  21. At last, to change the subject, Germaine ventured to make some remark to Mme.

  22. Once only had he ventured with humility to touch upon his unrequited sentiment.

  23. Surprise was depicted on the face of the beggar, who had learned by past experience to expect a curse if he ventured to address Ahmad Khan.

  24. The house applauded, and he ventured upon some attempts of the same kind which did not succeed.

  25. It might; but it implied also a pretty admonition to youth in general, and to those who ventured to pry into the goddess's retreats.

  26. So I ventured to stimulate the men a little further.

  27. But I mentioned Lotta, and ventured to ask Sir Timothy's advice as to how I should proceed in the matter of procuring her lodgment and so on until her trustees could be communicated with and she could be restored to their charge.

  28. We could not pretend surprise, but Peggy ventured a faint protest.

  29. Mountains and forest alike lay under deep snow, and it was not likely that they would hear anything further until spring, because the winter was unusually cold and a man who ventured now on a long journey was braver than his fellows.

  30. Like all who ventured into the West he expected some day to be exposed to Indian danger and attack, but it had been a vague thought.

  31. They ventured into the open, as venture they must to reach the defenders, and they were met by the terrible fire that never missed.

  32. He was the absconding polygamist for whom the tobacco-chewing female had ventured all the way from Chalk-Leod.

  33. The rather uncomfortable meal at an end, Heraia ventured a customary request.

  34. He ventured no further remarks, but remained sitting quietly beside his friend--waiting.

  35. Little Shula ventured to smile; and Amraphel signalized a partial defeat by seating himself in an ivory chair, disdained by him a half-hour before.

  36. And possibly because of these things, and only because of them, these councils were ventured at all.

  37. At first he had lost himself almost every time that he ventured from Ramua's side; but, by much wandering to find his way back again, he learned the streets and their crooked twistings as not all of the old inhabitants knew them.

  38. The Greek priest, who had not ventured to accompany me into the Ledja, I found again at Shaara.

  39. They had started from the well of Morkha early in the morning; and had ventured on the journey without water, or the hope of finding any till the following day in Wady Feiran.

  40. After his last indiscreet talk she had ventured deftly to remonstrate, and she well remembered the conversation.

  41. There'll be a bright moon tonight," ventured Bles.

  42. His sagacious mind explored the deepest questions of morals and metaphysics, and he ventured to urge eighteen arguments against the Christian doctrine of the creation of the world.

  43. Inspired by such selfish motives, (for we may not suspect him of any zeal for the public good,) John of Cappadocia ventured to oppose in full council the inclinations of his master.

  44. Yet Mahomet would scarcely have ventured so soon on so bold a step.

  45. And if anyone ventured to observe that he seemed quite well and that he ought to go to work she would exclaim: "No indeed, not yet.

  46. She ventured only a timid objection or two.

  47. He left the chair in which he was sitting, and ventured to take a seat by her side on the sofa.

  48. In spite of his dismissal of the day before, Jack ventured to raise his hat, but Lena did not bow, though he fancied her eyes appeared to seek his.

  49. Her mother, who, though she could not read Schiller, was as anxious for her daughter's happiness as any mother could be, saw something of this and at last ventured to ask a question.

  50. He ventured to look, but did not see her.

  51. Such would have been Mrs. Holt's expression as to the state of things had she ventured to express herself.

  52. Deceived also by news from England that Lord Oldborough's dismission or resignation could not be distant, Cunningham had ventured upon this bold stroke for an embassy.


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