1 He was a grain merchant and cattle-buyer, and was generally considered the most enterprising business man in our county.
2 First they took out the soil to make bricks, and then they filled it up again with garbage, which seemed to Jurgis and Ona a felicitous arrangement, characteristic of an enterprising country like America.
3 The enterprising newspaper reporter had taken all this information to his family, and told how they had received it.
4 They are not naturally daring and enterprising, but home-loving and affectionate.
5 He reflected that this coalition of four young, brave, enterprising, and active men ought to have some other object than swaggering walks, fencing lessons, and practical jokes, more or less witty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 6 Brave, rash, and enterprising, this was not the first time he had risked his life in such attempts.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 7 She knew her brother-in-law to be a worthy gentleman, a bold hunter, an intrepid player, enterprising with women, but by no means remarkable for his skill in intrigues.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER 8 The enterprising lady followed the mumming company through the gate in the white paling, and stood before the open porch.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 9 He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.
10 The effect of this was to render easy any enterprise in which the senate or great men of Rome thought fit to engage.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI. 11 Again, at the siege of Veii, we find the Roman commanders making use of religion to keep the minds of their men well disposed towards that enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII. 12 ; thinking that were he to succeed in getting these others to take part with him, his enterprise would be easier.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. 13 The faintest sound, as of the cackling of the geese in the Capitol, the least departure from some ordinary routine, the most trifling mistake or error, mars the whole enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII. 14 In compliance with which advice he went on this new enterprise with a vast army.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV. 15 In the beginning of his reign he attacked Granada, and this enterprise was the foundation of his dominions.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXI — HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS T...