It was a great while before Mrs. Peterkin ventured to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peterkin Papers] Reference

If we may use again a word ventured just above, they are mutually (not confused but) fused together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians] Reference

On Fox News Sunday, John McCain ventured into territory that I'm sure had his campaign staff cringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting Arguments - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com] Reference

Papeete to Atimaono, and over half the distance was covered by the time the Chinago again ventured into speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinago] Reference

Ellen felt a hot tear drop upon her forehead, and again ventured to speak for sympathy only by silently stroking Alice's cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wide, Wide World] Reference

It was twenty miles from Papeete to Atimaono, and over half the distance as covered by the time the Chinago again ventured into speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinago] Reference

It was twenty miles from Papeete to Atimaono, and over half the distance was covered by the time the Chinago again ventured into speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE CHINAGO] Reference

Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press A BIG BIRD: A parks employee carried a swan that had ventured from a park onto a London street Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photos of the Day: Oct. 19] Reference

I had ventured from a place of sneaking suspicion to confirmation that this family member would be diagnosed with a developmental disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilana Kukoff: Holding a Marriage Together During Crisis] Reference

Yesterday, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin ventured into the lion’s den to deliver a tough message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Kudlow: ‘The Chamber Of Commerce Is A Very Negative Force,’ ‘Absolutely Negative And Absolutely Wrong’] Reference

Autumn crept on; the days grew short, and dark, and at last Margot ventured to have a talk with her master.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

Edwin ventured to inquire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

I again ventured to plead the cause of delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference

But until now, no U.S. museum has ever ventured into Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Branching Out In Nagoya] Reference

Last week Rolling Thunder ventured into down-town Richmond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rolling Thunder] Reference

One of his contacts ventured into Hong Kong looking for help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still On The Wing] Reference

We had a blast, and we never ventured outside the Disney grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

She was a fiscal conservative, but ventured into unexpected territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mild About Harriet] Reference

He ventured deep into the jungles to a remote village and set to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropical Feast] Reference

They may even have ventured into the gaudy cloudscapes of Jupiter itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Where We Belong] Reference

"He ventured into territory which is not his concern," Chirac said archly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHIRAC'S TURNAROUND?] Reference

Malin, then a graduate student, ventured a guess in his doctoral dissertation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Seas] Reference

In deep mourning, she dressed only in black for a year and rarely ventured out.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Memoriam: A Light In The Darkness] Reference

Issey Miyake, on the other hand, ventured into stylish seating almost accidentally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sitting Pretty] Reference

Whenever Brzezinski ventured outside of the showcase capital, he found appalling misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potemkin Prosperity] Reference

A plausible analysis is ventured by Milton Glaser, the renowned illustrator and designer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Throw Out The Brushes] Reference

At one time, only daredevil skiers ventured into the trees and onto the untouched powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel: Splendor In The Trees] Reference

Recently, though, during a lecture on healing, I ventured to tell my students I was born again.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRAISE THE LORD! (AND HOWARD DEAN, TOO.)] Reference

"The Founding Fathers, if alive today, would endorse a right not to be shot," ventured a reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

But until the fall of apartheid in 1994, few actually ventured to South Africa's biggest metropolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's New Culture Meccas] Reference

It was a frightening notion for Baldwin, who was then 31 and had never ventured beyond Europe's borders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel: A Never-Ending Vacation] Reference

Merrill and other retail brokers, which once served individual clients, have ventured into investment banking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street’s Unraveling] Reference

As the poor cousins of Europe, Portuguese ventured to Africa or Asia looking not only for fortune but any job.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unimperial Empire] Reference

Japan's first big global companies were also greeted with enormous skepticism and doubt when they ventured abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Big Thing?] Reference

If they ventured in (or at least watched more Court TV), they would observe the great overlap between juries and voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ART OF THE CLOSING ARGUMENT] Reference

Since the time I first ventured out to play with the neighborhood kids, I was told over and over that I was lazy and disgusting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discrimination At Large] Reference

But those immigrants built the city inward and upward, and few ever ventured off the cramped, self-contained island of Manhattan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New New York] Reference

Some investigators, techies and digital rubberneckers, though, have ventured several theories on who might be behind it: Malicious hackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting The Hackers] Reference