emprize
- a variation of emprise.
Example Sentences
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No courser to the rapid chariot braced70 Had enter'd there with ease; yet strong desires Possess'd the infantry of that emprize, And thus Polydamas the ear address'd Of dauntless Hector, standing at his side.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
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 Rose, William Stewart
If Kings would see their high emprize preserved, v.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Not length of life—not an illustrious birth, Rich with the noblest blood of all the earth;— Nought can avail, save deeds of high emprize, Our mortal being to immortalise.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
Listen, ye pure white-robed souls, Whom in her list she now enrolls, And gird ye for your high emprize By these her thrilling minstrelsies.
From The Christian Year by Keble, John
