Eyach, then, would you be the chieftain over my emprises in space, and dwell with me as a seigneur among the Selenarchs? ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)
He came to his writing years with a sailor's disdain for the trifling hazards and emprises of market places and drawing rooms, and it shows itself whenever he sets pen to paper. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Everything was lost now, utterly and irretrievably -- lost as a dozen other fine emprises had been by his sudden and ungoverned frenzy. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
I cannot recall the time when everything connected with her did not possess for me a sweet and weird charm; when the fancy that this petite woman, with a heart and soul too great for her physique, was my guardian angel, did not stay my soul and renew my courage in all good emprises. ❋ Unknown (1910)
She openly exulted in our artless flatteries of her skill; she waited jealously at the head of the kitchen stairs to hear what was said of her work, especially if there were guests; and she was never too weary to attempt emprises of cookery. ❋ Thomas L. Masson (1900)
He was in the better world of boyish romance, -- of gallant deeds and high emprises; of miraculous atonement and devoted sacrifice; of brave men, and those rarer, impossible women, -- the immaculate conception of a boy's virgin heart. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
Hereof ought the good knight to be loved that by the goodness of his heart and the loyalty of his knighthood hath achieved all the emprises he undertook, without reproach and without blame. ❋ Anonymous (1869)
She is to stay with us, thou knowest, for use in trading and fishing, but Bridges, her master, saith some of his men are grumbling already at prospect of such peaceful emprises. ❋ Unknown (1862)
And here let us remark, in conclusion, for all such emprises the Southern Bully is eminently the right man in the right place; and it is much to be regretted that so many far better men and truer gentlemen, have been misled to consort with him in his hazardous and unlawful enterprises. ❋ Unknown (1860)
Their group - not unlike clubs of similar stripe here and coast to coast across our land - is staffed by individuals of business and professional background, engaged in extraordinary emprises. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The first man who prayed without book, and denied the authority of the church over the human soul, as the brave Loilards did, was the pioneer of Protestantism and the father of all the births which ushered this mighty epoch upon the stage of the world; Protestantism, which means so much and includes so many vast emprises -- establishing for freedom so grand a battle ground, and for philosophy and learning so wide and magnificent a dominion. ❋ Various (N/A)
Je me suis libéré des emprises de la terre, pour danser dans le ciel, sur des ailes argentées d’un grand ris. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)
But therefore I can ill keep the promise I gave you, my captain, that you would be chieftain over my emprises in space, and dwell with me as a seigneur among the Selenarchs. " ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)
"Anthony," he said, "I must on my way, but let me plead with thee that if thou dost entertain a thought of such rash emprises as thy words suggest, to forego them. ❋ Lucy Foster Madison (1898)
As [part of it's] overall strategy, the wealthy investment group used it's vast resources and network of skilled [startup] professionals, used [emprisation] to bring everything together and produce many successful bold and daring new enterprises. ❋ SergioAmore (2012)
