Adjective : a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer. ,Auto racing is a venturesome sport. From Dictionary.com.
There are one or two in the know who think me "venturesome" but, after all, is not "nothing venture nothing win" an unanswerable retort?. From Wordnik.com. [Gallipoli Diary, Volume I] Reference
Yet Dot had never been "too venturesome" in her life. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"Oh, don't be too venturesome, darling!" said Mrs. Bruce. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
These Mormons were a most venturesome people and daring settlers. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
To him was entrusted the most venturesome part of the night's work. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
She had already started down the driveway with her venturesome charge. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Their first bit of trouble on this somewhat venturesome tour occurred at. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
I became more venturesome from a sudden feeling as of fire rushing through my veins. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Nun] Reference
No-trump, but to bid without first hearing from the partner is obviously venturesome. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
Mignon had hardly driven away when Mary caught the venturesome youngster in her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
For the less venturesome, there are Plenty of mutual funds with good long-term records. From Wordnik.com. [Trend Surfing] Reference
Then the venturesome airman cannot neglect another factor which is adverse to his success. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The girl was of a venturesome disposition, and, with a number of others, had gone out rowing. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
No venturesome one must go down there and try the ice without Mr. Pease, or Samuel, being on hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
The "mainstream" Democratic Leadership Council has potential candidates, but none very venturesome. From Wordnik.com. [What's A Pair Of Paradigms? The Newest Odd Coupl] Reference
Alene wondered what he meant by the Torchlights, but did not like to ask; Laura more venturesome inquired. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
And there was nothing for the venturesome rider, or would-be rider, to cling to but this strap or blanket. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference
A venturesome expedition had also been essayed by our host, in the shape of a voyage down the chasm in a boat. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But for venturesome buyers, impatient with the low interest rates other types of policies pay, VULs shine like hope. From Wordnik.com. [A Gamble On Life] Reference
Some other lads were as venturesome as myself, and we used to go up the Humber with the tides, for several miles at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
Heads appeared around the corners of the structure, but no soul was venturesome enough to dare show himself in plain view. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
They was too venturesome; they went too far ahead, and must have perished of sheer cold; leastways that's what I've heard. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
A few venturesome lads who had never seen a midget climbed up to the braces that held sill to pillar to get a better view. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
In the larger enterprises older men are proverbially less speculative, more conservative, less venturesome than the young. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
At the time it was quite the thing for venturesome Americans to go and join the rebels and help the fight for "Cuba libre.". From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
"So I see, M'sieu," smiled Maren, with a touch of whimsical amusement at the memory of that morning, and his venturesome spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The methods of the British airmen are in vivid contrast to the practice of the venturesome Teuton aerial rovers described above. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
A rain of stones fell on the raft; one boy, more venturesome than the others, started up the hill but "Al-f-u-r-d's" fire repulsed him. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He was enthusiastic and venturesome, and before the close of his twentieth year had led several expeditions against the Osages and Sioux. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Clitheroe had launched her upon that venturesome sea, she had suddenly found herself equipped and able to sail without the aid of any one. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Confiding his purpose to his friend Serre, Gallatin easily persuaded this ardent youth to join him in his venturesome journey, and on April. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
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