The ground, too, became so rough that the youth was fain to confine himself to the highroad; but being of an explorative disposition, he quickly diverged into the lanes, which in that part of Cornwall were, and still are, sufficiently serpentine and intricate to mislead a more experienced traveller.
"Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines"
R.M. Ballantyne
Particularly with a man, who is, we will say, by nature, adventurous and explorative.
"Mrs. Falchion, Complete"
Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 12, 2009
This is doubtless the outgrowth of the bogies and the "don'ts" which are calculated to check the child's explorative and investigative instincts in his nursery days.
"Down the Columbia"
Lewis R. Freeman