Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to adventure; full of enterprise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given to adventure.
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- adjective Given to
adventure .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You may show that my adventureful road led nowhere, but I can prove, by the quickening of my pulse and the throbbing of my rapid recollections, that _things happened to me_ there or here; and I shall be believed, not you.
The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915
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You may show that my adventureful road led nowhere, but I can prove, by the quickening of my pulse and the throbbing of my rapid recollections, that things happened to me there or here; and I shall be believed, not you.
The Promised Land 1912
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You may show that my adventureful road led nowhere, but I can prove, by the quickening of my pulse and the throbbing of my rapid recollections, that things happened to me there or here; and I shall be believed, not you.
The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912
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But I will own that I think the time is yet far off, and that the people who have been brought up on the ideal grasshopper, the heroic grasshopper, the impassioned grasshopper, the self-devoted, adventureful, good old romantic card-board grasshopper, must die out before the simple, honest, and natural grasshopper can have a fair field.
Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878
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But I will own that I think the time is yet far off, and that the people who have been brought up on the ideal grasshopper, the heroic grasshopper, the impassioned grasshopper, the self-devoted, adventureful, good old romantic card-board grasshopper, must die out before the simple, honest, and natural grasshopper can have a fair field.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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