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Adventuresome   Listen
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Adventuresome  adj.  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.






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"Adventuresome" Quotes from Famous Books



... required, next, an interest as a partner; he had exacted, more lately, the presence of his name in the style and title of the firm; and to-day he was moving towards the making of the firm over into a stock company. He was younger than Marshall, stronger, more aggressive, more ambitious, more adventuresome; nor was it difficult to imagine him as fundamentally insolent ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... adventuresome journey recalled to the boys that they had entirely forgotten to tell about ...
— Comrades of the Saddle - The Young Rough Riders of the Plains • Frank V. Webster

... speak of child-life in this hard-pressed, serious-minded colony, but it was there and, doubtless, it was normal in its joyous and adventuresome impulses. Under eighteen years of age were the girls, Remember and Mary Allerton, Constance and Damaris Hopkins, Elizabeth Tilley and, possibly, Desire Minter and Humility Cooper. The boys were Bartholomew Allerton, who "learned to sound the drum," ...
— The Women Who Came in the Mayflower • Annie Russell Marble

... foreign lands. Try writing a story with a surprise ending like "The Gift of the Magi," a character story with the theme of unselfish love, and its setting in a big city. Again, "John G," the story of adventure with an animal for the hero, might suggest to you an adventuresome incident in your own experience. If you have a vivid imagination, it might be interesting to write a fanciful story like "Feathertop." All of you have heard of true and thrilling incidents of the recent Great War. Try to weave one into ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various



Words linked to "Adventuresome" :   unadventurous, swashbuckling, swaggering, audacious, sporting, incautious, brave, venturous, courageous, adventurous



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