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- adjective Without
adventure ;uneventful .
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Examples
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He allowed himself to think that in certain circumstances he would rob his hank but, as these circumstances never arose, his life rolled out evenly — an adventureless tale.
Dubliners 2003
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I reached the Austrian capital after an entirely adventureless journey, and felt that my enterprise was begun.
In Direst Peril David Christie Murray
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She was seated on a bench beside a pool where grew water-lilies, and where in the summer sunshine the dragon-flies skimmed on the placid surface of the green water -- water that now and again was broken into a ripple by the quick twist of the tail of one of the fat old carp that lived their humdrum, adventureless years in the quiet depths.
The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper
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He allowed himself to think that in certain circumstances he would rob his hank but, as these circumstances never arose, his life rolled out evenly -- an adventureless tale.
Dubliners James Joyce 1911
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At noon that day our adventureless adventurer had reached Bayley's Four -
The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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A predictable, adventureless life: it's the worst, most common fate for a woman. "
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