What is "venturer"

Usage examples of "venturer".

Strode Venturer could not make Aden without recourse to Admiralty bunkering facilities.

From solitary venturers, such as he had been so many years ago, to whole nations like the Dalesmen of High Hallack, the Sulcars, and various smaller bands and clans.

From solitary venturers, such as he had been so many years ago, to whole nations like the Dalesmen of High Hallack, the Sulcars, and various smaller bands and clans.

Stocky, weather-beaten and with manners as ill made as his much-broken nose, he had come to Kel Ar'Ayen as one the original venturers and sailed on the first explorations of the continent's coasts with the long-dead Master Grethist.

Freddie had spent half the night trying to persuade a demented Declan that they'd got to shop Tony, not just for seducing Maud and bugging their houses, but because Seb was working on excellent evidence that Tony had bribed Beattie Johnson to sing to the rooftops, just at a time when it would be most damaging to Venturer.

So they loaded the Pernese Venturer with the last of the more important items and distributed the remainder, unreadable bar codes notwithstanding, among the ships that were to sail west again.

The T-shirts were a beautiful cerulean blue, with a dark bronze drawing of a boy shading his forehead on the front and the words Support Venturer on the front and the back.

The electrical cable to the Ocean Venturer had parted and at first he saw only blackness.

Buy a packet of goods and ship as a merchant venturer for the New World.

It seemed every kid on the Island wanted to be a merchant venturer or explorer these days, the way they'd wanted to be astronauts or fossil-hunters when he was a boy back in the early sixties.

It seemed every kid on the Island wanted to be a merchant venturer or explorer these days, the way they’.

Like my brother, I was a merchant venturer, investing in cargoes and often going along to handle the trading myself.

He had planned what it should be -- the story it should tell of a disheartened mediocre venturer of his poor all returning bankrupt and humiliated from Australia, ending existence in such pennilessness that the parish must give him a pauper's grave.

Cameron tried to follow him, but, trapped by the crowd, she watched Rupert, Declan, Taggie and the rest of Venturer, plus their supporters, jubilantly swanning off to the Bar Sinister for drinks on the house.

Gathered round the radio, because there was no television news till six o'clock, the Venturer consortium pounced on every bit of news.