"Venturous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and over, And nine long tedious days; Why didst thou, venturous lover— Why didst thou trust the seas? Cease, cease, thou cruel Ocean, And let my lover rest; Ah! what's thy troubled motion To that ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... eminence. What a flash of wonder would pass through their minds when they saw it open! What that might signify they would be eager to hurry to find out; but, at all events, their difficulty was at an end. When love to Christ is brought to a stand in its venturous enterprises by difficulties occurring for the first time to the mind, it is well to go close up to them; and it often happens that when we do, and look steadily at them, we see that they are rolled away, and the passage cleared which we ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... the mouth of the Trent. Like a flock of venturous wild-fowl, they put boldly out upon Lake Ontario, crossed it in safety, and landed within the borders of New York, on or near the point of land west of Hungry Bay. After hiding their light craft in the ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.
... toi qui dors dans Vombre, O sacre Souvenir." If we could have remembrance now And see, as in the days to come We shall, what's venturous in these hours: The swift, intangible romance of fields at home, The gleams of sun, the showers, Our workaday contentments, or our powers To fare still forward through the uncharted haze Of present days. . . . For, ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... excellent fair falcon, it fortuned that the King's Falconers, in the presence and hearing of his Grace, highly commended his Majesty's Falcon, saying, that it feared not to intermeddle with an eagle, it was so venturous and so mighty a bird; which when the king heard, he charged that the falcon should be killed without delay: for the selfsame reason, as it may seem, which was rehearsed in the conclusion of the former history concerning ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey
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