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Adventurousness Adversity (See FAILURE.) Advice (See COUNSEL.) Affectation (See PRETENSION.) Affliction (See SUFFERING.) Adverse, Anthony leads adventurous and romantic life in Italy, France, and America in the Napoleonic era. [Am. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 36] hobbit-protagonist; has escapades with dwarfs. [Br. Lit.: The Hobbit] picaresque victimizer and victim who encounters all the social classes of 18th-century Spain. [Fr. Lit.: Gil Blas; Benét, 395] secret agent 007, whose exploits feature futuristic technology. [Br. Lit.: Herman, 27] schlemiel has wild adventures among fabulous beasts on tropical isles. [Comics: Horn, 125] Peter Rabbit’s thrill-seeking cousin. [Children’s Lit.: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny] helps in Monmouth’s unsuccessful attempt to wrest the throne from King James. [Br. Lit.: Doyle Micah Clarke in Magill I, 585]
experiences adventures among pirates, cannibals, and slavers. [Br. Lit.: Defoe Robinson Crusoe] hero of Wild West dime novels. [Am. Folklore: Walsh Modern, 115] wanders the Low Countries, living by his wits and avenging the evil deeds of King Philip. [Belg. Lit.: Benét, 325] 19th-century young runaway becomes gaucho; Argentinian Huckleberry Finn. [Arg. Lit.: Don Segundo Sombra] partisan of Napoleon, involved in love, intrigue, a duel, and ends up as a Carthusian monk. [Fr. Lit.: Stendhal The Charterhouse of Parma in Magill I, 135] 19th-century picaresque teenager travels down the Mississippi on a raft. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] amoral adventuress of many liasons. [Br. Lit.: Defoe Moll Flanders in Benét, 678] gentleman undertakes world trip on wager. [Fr. Lit.: Around the World in Eighty Days] battles storms, disaster, and a giant octopus in order to salvage a ship’s engine and win a bride. [Fr. Lit.: Toilers of the Sea in Magill II, 1037] constantly launches into apparently hopeless adventures to combat evil powers. [Comics: Berger, 133] 17th-century hero travels to fanciful lands on extraordinary voyages. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver’s Travels] shrewd rascal travels around Persia. [Fr. Lit.: Hajji Baba of Ispahan in Magill I, 343] traced and hounded by enemies of England, has several narrow escapes. [Br. Lit. and Cinema: Buchan The 39 Steps in Magill I, 972] cabin boy on pirate ship. [Br. Lit.: Treasure Island] gallant warship captain in Napoleonic era. [Br. Lit.: Captain Horatio Hornblower] as penance for killing a prince, submits to perilous journey to the East. [Ger. Lit.: Benét, 487; Ger. Opera: Oberon] leader of Argonauts in successful quest for the Golden Fleece. [Gk. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 500]
caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped] orphan wanders streets of India with lama. [Br. Lit.: Kim] tale of raft trip taken to prove sea-borne migration of peoples and culture. [Pacific Hist.: Kon-Tiki] has adventures in Germany, France, and Portugal under a succession of names and professions. [Ger. Lit.: Mann The Confessions of Felix Krull in Magill III, 218] T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), legendary hero, led Arab revolt against Turkey. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 572] 16th-century picaresque novel about a runaway youth who lives by his wits serving, in succession, a blind beggar and several unworthy ecclesiastics. [Span. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 415] 19th-century sportsman with quixotic tales. [Br. Lit.: Humphry Clinker, Magill I, 394–397] picaresque traveler and teller of tall tales. [Ger. Lit.: Baron Mücnchhausen] infant lost in the Indian forest is brought up by a wolf pack. [Children’s Lit.: Kipling The Jungle Books in Magill I, 461] submarine in which its builder, Captain Nemo, cruises around the world. [Fr. Lit.: Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] travels throughout the world in the Nautilus, a submarine of his own invention. [Fr. Lit.: Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea] (Ulysses) varied adventures after the Trojan War kept him away from Ithaca for ten years. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] young rogue experiences escapades in England and on the Continent. [Br. Lit.: Peregrine Pickle in Magill I, 731-4] 13th-century Venetian merchant; brought Oriental wonders to Europe. [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 222–224] journeys include mutiny, shipwreck, savages, and the supernatural. [Am. Lit.: Poe, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” in Magill I, 640–643] undertakes a dangerous African expedition in search of a lost diamond mine. [Br. Lit.: H. Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines in Magill I, 475]
exiled for killing in a duel, goes to sea, endures shipwreck and battles, and discovers his wealthy father. [Br. Lit.: Roderick Random, Haydn & Fuller, 644] undergoes many adventures to regain his abducted bride. [Russ. Poetry: Ruslan and Lyudmilla in Haydn & Fuller, 653] classic 19th-century adventuresome, all-American boy. [Am. Lit.: Tom Sawyer] from callowness to audacity on 17th-century battlefields. [Ger. Lit.: Simplicissimus] the Sailor has scores of adventures in the course of seven voyages. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights] 19th-century French Quixote acts out his dreams of travel. [Fr. Lit.: Tartarin de Tarascon] jungle man leads adventurous life. [Am. Lit.: Tarzan of the Apes] inventor travels into future; sees degeneration of life. [Br. Lit.: The Time Machine] picaresque novel of a young man in 18th-century England. [Br. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 745] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The effect of sexual permissiveness was
weak--indeed non-significant in women--though the association between
use of sex toys and orgasm in women may indicate a link between orgasm
and sexual interest or adventurousness, which may affect orgasm directly
or via a wider repertoire of sexual practices. Her adventurousness continually takes Sam by surprise, as
when she suggests in section eight of the story that the couple invite
Frodo for an intimate three-way encounter. But it seems the
public is just as averse to such sexual adventurousness now as when
Kinsey released his widely condemned study of female sexuality in 1953. |
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