emprise
noun
an adventurous enterprise.
emprize
-
a variation of
emprise.
Example Sentences
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Ah! wherefore, Brandimart, did I let thee Without me wend on such a dire emprize?
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
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 William Cowper
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
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
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
