What is "adventurer"

Usage examples of "adventurer".

Sevilla with some muledrivers who had decided to stop at the inn that night, and since everything our adventurer thought, saw, or imagined seemed to happen according to what he had read, as soon as he saw the inn it appeared to him to be a castle complete with four towers and spires of gleaming silver, not to mention a drawbridge and deep moat and all the other details depicted on such castles.

The advantage of being an Adventurer without a voice in colony affairs would be purely a moral one.

In such case, the charter-party of the MAY-FLOWER, with the autograph of each Merchant Adventurer appended, would constitute, if it could be found, one of the most interesting and valuable of historical documents.

He was not only a Merchant Adventurer, but a patentee and deputygovernor of the Massachusetts Company, and an intimate friend of Winthrop.

Was, as appears elsewhere, a well-conditioned tradesman of Surrey, England, who was both an Adventurer and a MAY-FLOWER Pilgrim, and Martin and himself appear to have been the only ones who enjoyed that distinction.

That he was an Adventurer is but recently discovered by the author, but there appears no room for doubt as to the fact.

Is sometimes confounded with another Adventurer, Matthew Thornhill, as his name is some times so spelled.

Each Adventurer had come to believe in his own heart and mind that this was the only way.

The most enjoyable dinner I had was with Madame de Gergi, who came with the famous adventurer, known by the name of the Count de St.

I found a corner of the glass door before which there was no curtain, and on applying my eye to the place I saw my young adventurer holding his conquest in his arms on the bed.

It did not cost me much to get wind of the adventurer, but I felt angry that he had had the impudence to try and dupe me.

Fortune had made an actor of him, and he looked wretched enough, while I, the adventurer, had a prosperous air.

As for the young adventurer I thought him more to be pitied than to be blamed, for I did not believe that he knew I loved him, and it seemed to me that the idea of my despising him was enough vengeance for his audacity.

She begged me to console her mother and make her listen to reason, as she had not gone off with an adventurer but with a man of rank, her equal.

The king has heard some stories of this famous adventurer, which compel him to forbid him his Court.