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Back in Sanford, he soon saw a serious case of double pneumonia and venturously tried sulfa.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one perceived his adroit under-meaning; but Eva bethought herself of her school-phrases, and venturously selected one.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

Perhaps you know Lord Blandamer?” he added venturously; yet with a suggestion that even the sodality of first-class travelling was not in itself a passport to so distinguished an acquaintance.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade

Note her, in particular, whose form is so perfect; venturously running on the brink of the precipice, and turning back her head, as regardless of nothing but the graceful flow of her robe.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

"Well, after that, I think you might let her go to Aussolas," said I venturously.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin