Adventurers

Examples

• The condition of India at this time was one very interesting and attractive to European adventurers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To begin with, each story is nearly always a story of adventurers and of cruelty and loot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In a little while a swarm of Spanish adventurers were exploring the new lands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A month or six weeks later I saw an extract from an American newspaper, describing the departure of the adventurers on their inland journey. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In 1698, however, the private adventurers were subjected to a duty of ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Amidst the vast ruins of the city of Rome half-independent families of quasi-noble adventurers and their retainers maintained themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nor can we tell much more of the swift spread of Spanish adventurers over the rest of America, outside the Portuguese reservation of Brazil. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Most of the former are manifestly unscrupulous adventurers who try to utilize the public necessity and unhappiness for their own advancement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No private adventurers, accordingly, have ever attempted to trade to that country in competition with them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Abbasids were adventurers and rulers of an older school than Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And as he does so, events gather towards a fresh invasion by the free adventurers of the outer world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Smaller or greater adventurers seized a castle or a countryside and ruled an uncertain area. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have known many adventurers; interesting spirits--amiable society! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Several adventurers that happened to the author. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The mine-adventurers company has been long ago bankrupt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It almost warrants the enthusiasm of the spies of that rabble of adventurers who captured Dan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The scheme was put into working order at once, and a sufficiency of provisions was made ready for the adventurers. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But the first adventurers do not appear to have been much interested about silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The establishment of such a company necessarily encourages adventurers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Now the two adventurers prepared to descend, and shook hands with the Demarch and his nephew, both of whom were much affected. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The truth is, they were planted at the expense of private adventurers, who went over there to settle, with leave of the king, given by charter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The English in America were colonists; the French were explorers, adventurers, agents, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those adventures were all at the private risk and expense of the adventurers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is upon this account, that joint-stock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private adventurers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Everywhere men who would have been regarded as shady adventurers before 1914 had acquired power and influence while better men toiled unprofitably. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What those adventurers were reported to have found, however, was sufficient to inflame the avidity of all their countrymen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One of its primary impulses was to protect property against the greed and waste of kings and the exploitation of noble adventurers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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