Since my last, our affairs take a more pacific turn; but I will not venture to affirm that our peace will be either safe or honourable.
The Neckers cannot venture into Geneva, and Madame de Stael will probably lye in at Rolle.
It would be madness to venture my life in the land of Cannibals, and the circuitous route by Germany would be attended with a large increase of trouble and expense.
Walpole, writing on September 11, says the combined French and Spanish fleets were at the entrance of the Channel, "where they certainly will not venture to stay long.
I venture to affirm that the United States would not hold them ten years before they would be veritable mines of wealth.
But another entertainment is in store for us; and so once more we venture forth into the night--en route to the village-green.
If he had lived he would have written his tribute, and I venture to take up his pen to say, in my inadequate way, what he would have said so well, moved by the eloquence of deep feeling.
The result was, that we dared not venture to try to reach a neighbor; we simply had to endure the situation, as no cry could be heard above the din of the constantly increasing storm.
Occasionally the young officers, perhaps too timid to venture on a personal suggestion, sent us word by roundabout ways that they did not want us to continue to cultivate someone of whom we knew nothing save that he was agreeable.
If I knew any one to whom this incident occurred, I should not venture to make use of it as an example of the embarrassing situations in the new order of affairs in the reorganized army.
The honors that had come to him as senator, governor, statesman, faded beside the joys of his firstventure from home into the wilderness.
Alas, when he finds it safe to venture from the green oasis, the crops are not only gone, but the roots are burned, and the ground valueless from the parching of the terrible heat.
Shall we venture to depart from the old ways, and to decry the customs handed down to us from the ages gone by?
From this positive stand-point we may be permitted to cautiously venture a little further, in the direction of a theory for the precise localization of the organs of emotion.
And, therefore, we venture to claim that this is a woman's question--that the women themselves are the only persons capable of dealing with it.
I venture to think that the Board has been premature in transferring the islands to a native pastorate at such a very early stage of their Christianity.
I ventureto present this journal letter just as it was written, trusting that the interest which attaches to volcanic regions, will carry the reader through the minuteness and multiplicity of the details.
She asked me why I would venture on such a step, without consulting her; she said her advice might have been civilly asked, if I was resolved not to have been guided by it.
They all declared unanimously that they would venture their lives and everything dear to them in my defense, and in the support of the honor of my crown.
But by degrees the boats were made larger and more perfect, so that they could venture farther out and weather a storm if it came.
He was obliged by some religious ceremony to return to Rome for a time, and he forbade his lieutenant, Quintus Fabius Rullianus, to venture a battle in his absence.
The profane libertines allow themselves to speak of "dignities" in a way which even an archangel did not venture to adopt in rebuking Satan.
Perhaps at a later period he might have stated this less strongly; and although no final judgment can yet be formed, one may venture an estimate of the Queen's influence in the different branches of the government.
But I would venture to suggest that some such plan as the following would probably be found quite effective at the very moderate cost of five thousand dollars a year.
They may be considered a frankly commercial venture meant to exploit the popularity of the Travels.
I did not venture to partake at that hour, but those who did would be quite unlikely to repent of it--till morning.
I shall venture no especial criticisms as yet--first because the Exhibition is not ready for it; next because I am in the same predicament.
Here I, with several others, invested two British shillings in a chance to sleep, but the venture (at least in my case) proved a losing one.
Yet for once I will venture to be so vain, as to affirm, that none of his hard metaphors, or forced expressions, are in my translation.
I shall only venture to give my own opinion, and leave it for better judges to determine.
But what if I venture to advance an invention of my own, to supply the manifest defect of our new writers?
Its results only, not its modes of operation or their stages, I may venture attempting to convey.
James imagined reproach in her silence, and did not venture to address her, having, indeed, no wish to speak to her, for what was there to be said?
But the soul of the soutar would venture far into the twilight, searching after the things of God, opening wider its eyes, as the darkness widened around them.
Not until she was dismounting at their own door, did the mother ventureher sole remark, "Eh, sirs!
But suppose you know enough to keep going, and do not care to venture into the dark?
Buckingham,--"do you venture to calumniate your protector?
But I may now venture to inform you that I am charged with a message from my dear lady to her cruel husband, with which I am persuaded he will comply, and come to her.
And do you venture to give me this shameful council?
But, if it be permitted that a slave Should tender counsel to the free, my voice May venture this:--Of thy strong band of sons Why is not one commissioned to explore For Heracles?
We went for a short time along a deeply-beaten road made by the rein-deer, which turned suddenly off to the south-west, a direction so wide of our course that we could not venture upon following it.
The ammunition, of which we had a small barrel, was also to be left with them, and it was hoped that this deposit would be a strong inducement for the Indians to ventureacross the barren grounds to their aid.
We had made to-day our proper course, south by east, which we could not venture upon doing before, for fear of falling again upon some branch of the Contwoy-to.
The arrangements being completed, we purposed commencing our journey next morning, but the weather was too stormy to venture upon the lake with the canoes.
Though the wind was not much diminished, we were urged, by the want of fire-wood, to venture upon proceeding.
He would hardly ventureto touch such a subject at that time, but it is a pity he has not left us the paper.
He had received news of the miscarriage of his West Indian expedition, and now seemed to contemplate a brilliant venture in the East; but he wanted peace until his plans were completed.
No one not gifted with the skin of an elephant would venture to say such things to Talleyrand.
When Napoleon wanted to have himself appointed President of the Italian Republic it was Talleyrand he sent to meet the 450 stern Italian patriots at Lyons, who would not venture nearer into the mesmeric circle of the Tuileries.
I imagine it was no slight occasion that made you obscure your singular beauty under so unworthy a disguise, and venture into this desert, where it was the greatest chance in the world that ever you met with us.
I may venture to say I'm here, I suppose," thought Caleb.
Could she venture to reveal her face to them without a blush?
May I venture to hope that the missing necklace has been found, sir?
Still, he did venture upon one question: "Have you got loose money for your fare?
The time has, in fact, come in which no government can venture to fill up the high places of the Church in defiance of the public press.
If I might venture to advise your lordship, I would suggest that you should discuss the matter with his grace next week.
Her eyes were long and large, and marvellously bright; might I ventureto say bright as Lucifer's, I should perhaps best express the depth of their brilliancy.
I doubted myself," said he, "whether your lordship would have anyone immediately in your eye, and it is on this account that I venture to submit to you an idea that I have been turning over in my own mind.
The juvenile Lookalofts might stand aloof, but the rest of the youth of Ullathorne would be sure to venture if Harry Greenacre showed the way.
She therefore sat herself down at her window, and repeatedly looking at her watch, nursed her child till she thought she might venture forth.
But while we are on the subject of Barchester, we willventure with all respectful humility to express our opinion on another matter connected with the ecclesiastical polity of that ancient city.
In her present state of dread she did not know of what atrocity he might venture to be guilty.
