Emprises [noun]

One has the sense at times of spying from ambush upon a promise of emprise and some great gain.

When once the class was fairly launched upon its new emprise, a change in the usual aspect of things became apparent.

True, I walked in the paths of pensive thought; but it was only to think of John--Blount and of the emprise we had in hand.

To me the most tender and beautiful thing in all this our great adventure and emprise was the meeting of little Arthur and Alice.

Karna heard with crimsoned forehead, left the emprise almost done, Left the bow already circled, silent gazed upon the Sun!

Lion-like his gait is agile, and determined is his air, Trust me he can do an emprise who hath lofty will to dare!

He has accomplished the emprise of the bow, long thought unattainable, and with which a popular report connects an idle prophecy.

He would not give up the emprise, he declared again, he would not be conquered save by time itself.

In this flannel-shirt life, however, Baden-Powell is not always on the serious emprise of soldiering.

Merely petty annoyances, thorns and pebbles in the pathways that lead to each high emprise.