You understand, of course, that the Chalice mine is a speculative venture?

He'd never have yanked me out of Paris for some speculative venture like this it just doesn't make sense!

Yet never, even to the end of his days, would he permanently lose faith in speculative ventures.

He lost his money in a series of speculative ventures and died 20 years later in relative poverty.

Art, always a speculative venture, constituted the best return on investment for some during the 80's - provided it sold at all.

"We try to get 4 to 5 percent of the fund in speculative ventures."

These towns were speculative ventures to make money for land developers.

She returned to England in 1898 after losing most of her money in a speculative venture.

But he was gone much of the time, pursuing one speculative venture or another.

It was a speculative venture to call on the Rieslings; interesting and sometimes disconcerting.