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Definition of Adventurers
1. adventurer [n] - See also: adventurer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adventurers
Literary usage of Adventurers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"THE MERCHANT Adventurers AT HAMBURG THE imperial city of Hamburg was for nearly
two hundred years the principal seaport on the continent to which the ..."
2. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney (1907)
"The Merchants Adventurers. — English merchants who exported and imported goods
in their own vessels were, with the exception of the staplers or exporters of ..."
3. The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History by Charles Gross (1890)
"In distinction from the staplers, who dealt in certain raw materials, the Merchant
Adventurers had the monopoly of *" exporting certain manufactured ..."
4. The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-1623 A. D.: As Told by Themselves by Edward Arber (1897)
"But the Planters, rather than leave the country, concluded absolutely to supply
themselves; and to all their Adventurers, [to] pay them, for nine years, ..."
5. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1892)
"among the Adventurers against the planters, and especially against the coming
... 1 It has not escaped the reader's attention, that the London Adventurers ..."
6. The History of British India by James Mill (1817)
"From the Coalition between the Company and the Merchant Adventurers, ... Adventurers.
The first operation of the new body of subscribers was the very ..."
7. The Genesis of the New England Churches by Leonard Bacon (1874)
"HAD the colony yielded speedy and large profits to the capital invested in it,
the anti-Separatist Adventurers might, perhaps, have forgotten their scruples ..."
8. The Journal of Negro History by Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc (1919)
"The Royal Adventurers in England 143 in. On the West Coast of Africa 163 IV. ...
Adventurers and the Plantations 206 BOOK REVIEWS: 232 WC ..."
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