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Example sentences for "could venture"

  • All I could venture to say, was: "I won't trouble you with talk, Catherine.

  • I prescribed for her as far as I could venture, but begged a word with her mother.

  • To keep awake any longer I found was impossible, so, drawing my blanket tightly round me, I lay down with my feet towards the fire, as near as I could venture to place them without fear of being burned.

  • I did not stop for further directions, but rode off as fast as I could venture to go, holding Lily tightly with my right arm round her waist before me.

  • I fancy I could venture to make a pretty correct guess at a certain secret of yours, my dear Lovell.

  • Having, in my rounds, visited the square, and comforted our prisoners as much as I could venture to do, I again went on with my domiciliary visits.

  • Whether I could weather it was the question; but I made all the sail I could venture to carry.

  • As soon as I could venture to make sail, I shaped a course for Rhode Island, and, getting a better land-fall than I expected, I reached it on the 12th of December.

  • With the same precautions which we had hitherto used we advanced as rapidly as we could venture to move towards what I took to be a building.

  • The master of the brig said that he was himself somewhat short of provisions, but would send us what he could venture to give in his own boat.

  • We pulled as close to her as we could venture to go.

  • We made all the sail we could venture to carry; but they had faster keels than we could boast of, so we had no hope of success.

  • He could venture to do this; he knew the Ephebi--there was no traitor in their ranks.

  • Arsinoe had received more than she could venture to expect; but she was again most deeply angered.

  • No one in Alexandria, no matter what name she bears, could venture to vie even remotely with your charms.

  • Daylight was looked for with anxiety by all on board, to ascertain the fate of the corvette, the captain eagerly waiting for the moment when he could venture to make sail, that he might stand towards her.

  • Murray continued on board her as far as he could venture to sea, but as he dared not be long absent from the Supplejack, he was at length compelled to return.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    colored folks; could call; could finde; could form; could gain; could get; could haue; could love; could meet; could not bring himself; could not have said; could not have told; could offer; could only; could paint; could play; could readily; could rely; could succeed; could think; could venture; could well; eight reals; irreparable loss; late years; thine head