She knew that the term, as he used it, implied no disrespect, that it was his equivalent for innamorata, and that each affair with a girl had represented one of his tentative ventures toward matrimony.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
But the Eskimo approaches the ventures of the wild with splendid endurance.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
She was to learn, however, that the strangeness of any event naturally depends very largely on what one has been accustomed to, and that one meets with many things which at least appear remarkable when one ventures out of the beaten track.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss