Sentences with 'adventurer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word adventurer and other words derived from it.
• « The fact is that the English adventurer Walter Raleigh had committed, by smoking a pipe (1586), a more serious sin than that of other precursors: he had opened wide the doors of the Old World to the lurks of smoking. »
• « Garibaldi was an adventurer, a romantic nationalist and a revolutionary who had spent most of his adult life as a mercenary fighting in independence campaigns and wars, mainly in South America. »
• « Since the days of the early adventurer Marco Polo, Venetian sailors had travelled to Black Sea ports and established their own colonies along the Mediterranean coast. »
• « In the summer of 1819, James Long, a planter from Natchez, Mississippi, became a filibuster, or unauthorised private military adventurer, when he led 300 men on an expedition across the Sabine River to seize control of Texas. »