Ventures

Examples

• Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Snagsby, presuming on the success of his last point, ventures to observe in a cheerful and rather knowing tone, No wings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Twemlow ventures gently to argue. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Because a man was successful in his ventures, there was no reason that in all other things his mind should be well-balanced. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But there are some other interesting points that may be touched on now in regard to a few of Edison's financial and commercial ventures not generally known or appreciated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Guppy replying that he is not much to boast of, Mr. Jobling ventures on the question, How is SHE? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No boat ever ventures into this bay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Ventures had failed; merchants had broken; funds had risen when he calculated they would fall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And when all the rest of us are discussing our ventures, none of us ever know what a single venture of yours is! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She has her own supper of bread and cheese to hand to Jo, with whom she ventures to interchange a word or so for the first time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The man from Shropshire ventures another remonstrative My lord! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They may be transformed to immeasurable enmities if he ventures to disturb them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Randall