It was easy to see that he was a gentleman,-taking the word in the widest of its acceptations,-but from things that dropped from him, I could gather that his life had been that of an adventurer.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Being an adventuress is not so very different from being an adventurer.
"Command"
William McFee
Four years before the tragedy occurred-so we learn from the dialogue-a gentlemanly adventurer of uncertain age had won and abused the affections of a motherless girl, whom he thought too simple to resent the treachery.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr