Who would accept Charles's empty alliance, which promised little but a royal title and a desperate venture?

He had wanted only those to whom killing is just another job, who were outside the law and ready for any desperate venture.

It was, I think, a desperate venture undertaken as a last hope.

"A man about to attempt a desperate venture," suggested Hanfor.

"It's a desperate venture for all of them," Stewart continued.

It was a desperate venture, and yet I must take it.

If any of you are definitely not disposed for a dangerous but by no means desperate venture, please identify yourself now.

I knew I was engaged in one of the most desperate ventures of my whole life.

He would do nothing to make it a desperate venture, and he had very little fear of his safety with such good help.

That was the one compensation of desperate ventures; if you won, they paid well.