emprise
noun
an adventurous enterprise.
emprize
-
a variation of
emprise.
Example Sentences
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Difficult, I hope, 500 At least, thou shalt experience that emprize.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
The famous warriors of the anticke world Us'd trophees to erect in stately wize, In which they would the records have enrold Of theyr great deeds and valorous emprize.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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
A cheek of white, suffused with crimson grain, Medoro had, in youth, a pleasing grace; Nor bound on that emprize, 'mid all the train, Was there a fairer or more jocund face.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Find Silence first, and bid him, on my part, On this emprize attend thee, at thy side: Since he for such a quest, with happiest art Will know what is most fitting to provide.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
