What is "adventuring"

Usage examples of "adventuring".

Because I want you to know, Sancho, that there is no profession more dangerous than that of adventuring knight.

Because wanting to convince anyone that there was no Amadis in the world or any of the adventuring knights who fill the histories, is the same as trying to persuade that person that the sun does not shine, ice is not cold, and the earth bears no crops, for what mind in the world can persuade another that the story of Princess Floripes and Guy de Bourgogne is not true, or the tale of Fierabras and the Bridge of Mantible, which occurred in the time of Charlemagne, and is as true as the fact that it is now day?

If the Empire were to become truly organized, they would certainly put down the ogrilloi and the human bandits, and kill the dragons and trolls and griffins, possibly the elves and dwarves and all the other things that make Adventuring entertaining in the first place.

I brea Ankhana and breathe it out again, waiting for that swift ru freedom that Adventuring always brings.

What were these uncomprehended, new emotions stirring in his hard soul, tempered by war and by unnumbered stern adventurings?

If the Empire were to become truly organized, they would certainly put down the ogrilloi and the human bandits, and kill the dragons and trolls and griffins, possibly the elves and dwarves and all the other things that make Adventuring entertaining in the first place.

The adventuring band that had no name moved in four different directions, each member taking his own path backward across the ever more dimly lit room.

Material relating to them has, on the whole, been scanted by annalists, since they were heroes too disreputable for classic myth, too cryptically independent ever to let themselves be tied to a folk, too shifty and improbable in their adventurings to please the historian, too often involved with a riffraff of dubious demons, unfrocked sorcerers, and discredited deities—a veritable underworld of the supernatural.

We've won I know not how many jewels and oddments of gold and electrum in our adventurings -- and even letters of credit on the Guild of the Grain Merchants.

Material relating to them has, on the whole, been scanted by annalists, since they were heroes too disreputable for classic myth, too cryptically independent ever to let themselves be tied to a folk, too shifty and improbable in their adventurings to please the historian, too often involved with a riffraff of dubious demons, unfrocked sorcerers, and discredited deities -- a veritable underworld of the supernatural.

I was thinking of how glad I am that you've had your southward adventurings before marriage.

The space adventurings of all the Combine and the Allied species had scarcely scratched one galaxy of an unimaginable number composing the universe.

In youth his adventurings had all looked eastward, now in his elder years eyes and heart turned westward.