Citations:adventurous

English citations of adventurous

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.

  Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones — so goes the story — to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?

  No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.

  Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.