emprise
noun
an adventurous enterprise.
emprize
-
a variation of
emprise.
Example Sentences
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Be at ease; I challenge for myself the whole emprize; And, to set free your brethren, in my hand More than a thousand shall avail this brand.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
If Kings would see their high emprize preserved, v.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Yes, dear angel, I go like a man vowed to some great emprize, the guerdon of which, if success attend him, is the recovery of his beautiful mistress.
From The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac
But Fortune, that had destined you whilere, And yet unborn, to many a fair emprize, Your mother to that lonely shore did steer, Which overright the sandy Syrtes lies.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
The heroic wealth of passionate emprize Built thee fair cities for thy naked plains: How hast thou set thy summer growth among The broken stones which were their palaces!
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
