emprize

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

  Anne of Geierstein

• “Henry, if thou meanest me, I am but half a Douglas in this emprize — half head, half heart, and half hand. —”

  The Abbot

• “If Kings would see their high emprize preserved, v. 106.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Yes, dear angel, I go like a man vowed to some great emprize, the guerdon of which, if success attend him, is the recovery of his beautiful mistress.”

  A Marriage Contract

• “Thou art no Christian, Rebecca; and to thee are unknown those high feelings which swell the bosom of a noble maiden when her lover hath done some deed of emprize which sanctions his flame.”

  Ivanhoe

• “Eke everychone who shulde her ele [42] emprize [43].”

  The Rowley Poems

• “Under such a leader as thou hast spoken this knight to be, there are no craven fears, no cold-blooded delays, no yielding up a gallant emprize, since the difficulties which render it arduous render it also glorious.”

  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4

• “The church contains several antique tombs, together with curious monumental brasses, nearly all, I believe I may say all, to the memory of the Cotton family; amongst whom, judging from the inscriptions, were crusaders and knights of mighty emprize, and other worthies.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851

• “Thine was the world’s dim dawn, the prime emprize;”

  A Cosmic Outlook

• “` ` Rebecca, '' said Ivanhoe, ` ` thou hast painted a hero; surely they rest but to refresh their force, or to provide the means of crossing the moat --- Under such a leader as thou hast spoken this knight to be, there are no craven fears, no cold-blooded delays, no yielding up a gallant emprize; since the difficulties which render it arduous render it also glorious.”

  Ivanhoe

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