Enterprise

Examples

• How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow; yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He has fallen off from neither, said Waldemar Fitzurse; and since it may not better be, I will take on me the conduct of this perilous enterprise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Wealthy men had to come together to create an enterprise; credit and plant, that is to say, Capital, were required. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When younger, said he, I felt as if I were destined for some great enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In 1824 the Enterprise, an English steamer, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and went to India. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thus, for the second time, did Mr. Pickwick's innate good-feeling involve him in an enterprise from which he would most willingly have stood aloof. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In this business Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler was associated with Mr. Wilson, and the well-known Wheeler & Wilson machines are the result of their enterprise and ingenuity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Day after tomorrow is the bridge and this man is bad and he constitutes a danger to the success of the whole enterprise. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You don't feel at all shaken, Mr. Jennings, in respect to this medical enterprise of yours? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Through his extraordinary energy and enterprise the business made enormous strides, and Mr. Rathenau has become one of the most conspicuous industrial figures in his native country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sir Knight, answered Rowena, in enterprises such as yours, the real dishonour lies not in failure, but in success. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mr. Edison's storage battery and the poured cement house have not yet reached the stage of great commercial enterprises, and therefore have not yet risen to the dignity of patent litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Contemporaneously, he and his force of men were very busily engaged day and night on other important enterprises and inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The political enterprises of the papacy necessitated an increasing demand for money. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The missionary enterprises of the papacy in Mongolia ended in failure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both these enterprises were doomed to failure by the nature of things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The financial aspect of these enterprises is often overlooked and forgotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These were absorbed in enterprises already existing, and were the means of assisting their rapid growth and expansion, particularly the telephone industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This belief was the stronger because the manufacturing enterprises belonged personally to Mr. Edison and not to his company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Both relied successfully upon the power of the written word to link great multitudes of diverse men together in common enterprises. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is perhaps the right place at which to refer to the matter, as it belongs in the list of his financial or commercial enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Its programme was faithfully carried out--a thing which surprised me, for great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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