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On the Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forgive me, friend Sherman, but I had almost forgotten how unventuresome you are.

From The Unlearned by Jones, Raymond F.

William, my hitherto unventuresome friend William, is going abroad.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various

Even those who are not professionally on the side of the musical anarchs find it somewhat unventuresome, too smooth and soft and elegantly elegiac, too dull.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul