The heavy boots of the platelayers walking to and fro to their work on the permanent way brushed against it, and crushed the venturous fibres of the creeping cinquefoil that stretched into the path.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But, apart from any such special prompting, our fishermen, essentially venturous, all too eagerly incur the debt and risk a life of indebtedness for the chance of winning the comparative comfort to which a few, a very few, of their class attain.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
venturous men have gone in to discover the terrible secret, but none has returned to tell it.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham