This said, he paused not, but withventurous arm He plucked, he tasted.
Thrice happy he, the rare Prometheus, who can play With hidden things, and lay New realms of nature bare; Whose venturous step has trod Hell underfoot, and won A crown from man and God For all that he has done.
Santa Cruz did not wish to endanger his fame, the only thing he had earned during a long life, by an ill-timed or very venturous undertaking.
And mainly through a personal relation which she had entered into with the young George Douglas, who conceived hopes of her hand, she succeeded in escaping out of her prison and over the lake, bold and venturous as she always was.
Was none so blest as in that garden's close Yet to have set his venturous foot before.
If you have a moment's regard for the friendship we have so often vowed to each other, let my wishes for once prevail over your own venturous and romantic temper.
Far better grasp with venturous hand The flame to wildest fury fanned.
Thus while she sung, the venturous Knight Has reach'd a bower, where milder light Through crimson curtains fell; Such softened shade the hill receives, Her purple veil when twilight leaves Upon its western swell.
When first I took this venturous quest, I swore upon the rood, Neither to stop, nor turn, nor rest, For evil or for good.
Onward his daring course he bore, While, mix'd with dying growl and roar, Wild jubilee and loud hurra Pursued him on his venturous way.
They originate in a venturous experiment; and, however long, and however complicated that experiment become, it retains its original character; it remains experimental to the end.
It is this truth, with the higher aspirations, the moreventurous hopes and efforts which it suggests, that the Sacramental system of the Church keeps in its due prominence.
It cannot afford to enter on that venturous committal of itself less equipped and instructed than it was open to it to be.
But Sir William Hillary and Thomas Wilson made earnest appeals to Parliament for the establishment of a national life-saving institution; and Hillary added the more effective argument of many deeds of personal daring in the venturous work.
Again, borne forth by waves and wind, Men spread a venturous sail, ’Mid rocks of massy ice to find The scarce less massy whale.
But Buonaparte was desirous to aim a decisive blow at the most enterprising and venturous of the invading armies.
The feeble bird With little wings, yet greatly venturous In the upper sky.
Up from the final depths of the valley of the Jordan some venturous oleanders had crept, and with their large bloom now starred the sunken place.
In all these feelings, mighty always, there were for me the freshness, the rush of youth, and the venturous joy of new experience.
She has humour, but to ask her to turn its rays on this situation would be too venturous a stroke.
There childhood flung its rustling stone, There venturous boyhood learned to climb,-- How well the early graft was known Whose fruit was ripe ere harvest-time!
Hence, after successive disappointments, and being of more venturous temper than his superior, it is not surprising that he soon was willing to undertake his task with fewer men than his unbiased judgment would call necessary.
On December 12 he sailed for Chile, satisfied with the material outcome of his venturous cruise, but wishing to add to it something of further distinction by an encounter with Hillyar, if obtainable on terms approaching equality.
The prize is in the middle isle, There lies the venturous way; And armies twain are on the plain, The daring deed to see-- Now ask thy gallant company If they will follow thee!
It was not Frenchman's blood that flowed So freely on the Rhine-- A stranger band of beggared men Had done the venturous deed: The glory was to France alone, The danger was their meed.
In war it was always his custom, after he had struck some venturous and apparently decisive blow, to offer such conditions as might induce the enemy to submit, and separate his interest from that of his allies.
You cannot imagine how many are killed hereabouts; and yet men are so foolishly venturous as to set out lightly on pilgrimage, and to come without a guide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "venturous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
