His ill-fated venture, which lasts only two days, prompts Carrie to leave him; in her farewell note, she encloses twenty dollars.

The company also made an ill-fated venture into newspapers when it bought The Washington Star, which closed in 1981.

The ill-fated venture was the literary equivalent of Domino's Pizza.

A seeker for omens might have said that the heavens were weeping over our ill-fated venture.

Retired at the time of his announcement to clone the first human, Seed was reported to have dabbled in ill-fated ventures in the past.

My attendance on this ill-fated venture will not change that.

The trip forms part of celebrations to mark the centenary of the ill-fated 1912 venture, during which Scott and his party perished.

Thus ended the ill-fated venture which claimed the life of one of America's greatest botanists.

F'lar responded with hearty congratulations, relieved that there would be at least that much benefit from this apparently ill-fated venture.

At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture.