Terry, sending his cavalry scouting up the Rosebud, found an unimpeded passage for miles and miles; and even as our friends at Russell were reading with gloomy faces the tidings from the front, a little battalion of cavalry, pushing venturously up the wild and picturesque valley, came suddenly upon a sight that bade their leader pause.
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
After endeavoring, by means of sentences and definitions to get a notion of the beautiful, one is tempted to say, as Goethe did when "the idea of the Divinity" was venturously mentioned to him by Eckermann, "Dear child, what know we of the idea of the Divinity?
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
I wonder I did not visit the eternal shades sooner that I expected, for no squirrel ever skipped from bough to bough more venturously.
"Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents"
William Beckford