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Sentences starting with risk

Risk there certainly was, if she--if she cared for him. [11]

Sentences ending with risk

During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
Perhaps he will win through, by himself, but is it fair to have him run the risk? [11]
I don't know whether I can make a success of it, and you are entitled to decline to take the risk. [9]
They felt it was a matter they ought to be able to decide for themselves, but still it was the last evening of Lali's stay in town, and they did not care to take any risk. [11]
Philosophizers on this topic say that a man ought always to be able to tell by a woman's demeanor towards him whether she is favorably inclined, and that he need run no risk. [4]
Are you afeard to take the risk? [11]
When we propose to protect their interests, they say to us: Leave us to take care of ourselves; we are willing to run the risk. [7]
He went down to help save men of my class, and to any of us he's worth the risk. [11]
I begged them to come out, for the sea was rising and I was satisfied that they were running some risk. [5]
And he gave them clearly to understand that an unbaptized person ran no inconsiderable risk. [9]

Short sentences using risk

Yes, he would risk it. [5]
I'll risk it. [8]
I'll risk it. [13]

Sentences containing risk two or more times

If I was to risk putting it off--No, I won't run any risk like that. [5]

More example sentences with the word risk in them

I appeal to you, Mr. Ritchie,"--he was still talking in French--"I appeal to you, who are a man of affairs,"--and he swept me a bow,--"if a captain would risk taking a fugitive to France for eight hundred livres? [9]
I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
But I'll tell you what it is, Jack; if I had a comfortable income, I wouldn't risk it in any speculation. [4]
I think I would risk myself in your bands, although you are not a specialist. [6]
In truth he would have come to a bad end, but that the younger woman saved him at the risk of her own life. [10]
He kept his word to you--at the risk of his life, and, as his son, I take a greater pride in him to-day than I ever have before. [9]
But we were within the enemy's country now, so there was no help for them, they must continue the march, though Joan said that if they chose to take the risk they might depart. [5]
The devoted wife with great pain and risk came the whole journey to Honolulu, and pleaded until the authorities were unable to resist her entreaty that she might go and live like a leper with her leper husband. [5]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
I trust he will not risk another operation. [14]
But he knew what a distance their ages seemed just now to put between them,--a distance which would grow practically less and less with every year, and he did not wish to risk anything so long as there was no danger of interference. [6]
This Mr. Scarlett was from Connecticut, had been a quartermaster in the army, and at much risk brought ploughs and hardware, and scissors and buttons, and broadcloth and corduroy, across the Alleghanies, and down the Ohio in flatboats. [9]
The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual. [10]
Yet during this walk the Emperor Charles, even at the risk of presenting a pitiable spectacle, would gladly have availed himself of the litter. [10]
I don't like very well to risk you again. [7]
The man was vain and selfish to run any risk, to do anything that might endanger her safety--that is, her happiness and comfort. [11]
The bad effect upon the November election, and especially the giving the State government to those who will oppose the war in every possible way, are too much to risk if it can be avoided. [7]
They all urged upon Dudley Veneer to go with them: if there was danger, why should he remain to risk it, when he sent away the others? [6]
Ruth resolutely insisted upon accompanying him, and he well knew what urged her to risk safety and life as freely as he did himself. [10]
I would sooner twenty times have a profligate like my Lord Sandwich for a parent than a milk and water sop like Manners, who will risk nothing over a crown piece at play or a guinea at Newmarket. [9]
And the risk to which he would expose his life by carrying out his design excited him still more. [2]
It occurred again to Venters that he could go to the canyon where Oldring kept his cattle, and at little risk he could pack out some beef. [13]
He then represented to them the fearful risk to which their folly had exposed them, and insisted very positively on their returning home and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, taking a bath and putting on fresh garments. [10]
Then he turned to the governor, who did not care to risk his life in the way of escape. [11]
All had tales to tell of his prowess, and how he had saved Rutherford's men from ambush at the risk of his life. [9]
He was prompt to take up any poor devil's quarrel and risk his neck to right him. [5]
If you're' willin' to take the risk, you tell 'em ten thousand dollars wouldn't tempt me. [9]
The prisoner refused to say what that troubled conversation was about, but who could question his right to take the risk of his silence being misunderstood? [11]
It won't do to run the risk of going back to bring my fellows up. [11]
It was better to run some risk of injury to health, than to have her absence prolonged another day. [6]
If you choose to risk yourself on 'possibilities,' it is not my affair, and she's a beauty, there's no mistake about that. [6]
I'd be afraid to risk taking her anywhere. [13]
However, he determined to risk it; and did. [5]
I was afraid to risk it. [9]
Finally I decided to risk it, and the first thing that I beheld was a palm-leaf fan, moving slowly. [9]
Howells was willing to risk it, and that the result was only amusing instead of tragic is the best proof of their friendship. [5]
He felt willing to risk Injun Joe and all other terrors. [5]
Could he afford to risk his life in the war that was coming, and leave his mother dependent upon charity? [9]
He made bold to risk a shot and light a fire, and thus we had buffalo meat for some days after. [9]
Would you like to risk a month in a dry time like this? [5]
It does seem to me that when a man sees a fellow-being struggling in the water and jumps in at the risk of his life to save him-- O.M. [5]
Is it better to give up Moscow without a battle, or by accepting battle to risk losing the army as well as Moscow? [2]
I did venture to expostulate with him on the risk he must be running in serving out his term. [9]
In the mean time she dared not risk confessing to him that she was another's bride, for that might determine him to let Diodoros feel his power. [10]
For a short time it was really a formidable wedging together of people, and if a lady had fainted in the press, she might have run a serious risk before she could have been extricated. [6]
Well, as the time approached for George to risk his life for his new beliefs, his mental conflict deepened. [9]
Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind look or bad opinion from him," Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. [2]
And yet I thought it was better to run that risk, more manly, more sensible, than to give way to the fears which made my flesh tremble as did Sir Cloudesley Shovel's. [6]
He said he thought he would wait until Monday, and take the risk of his house falling. [5]
I look upon this incontinence as merely the redundancy of a susceptibility to poetry which makes all the bards my daily treasures, and I can well run the risk of being ridiculous once a year for the benefit of happy reading all the other days. [6]
Four days ago this gallant young officer had taken risk for him, had saved him from injury, perhaps death; to-day the spear meant for him had stricken down this same young officer, never to rise again. [11]
Here and there they were cracked in deep fissures, some of them of such width that one might enter them, if he cared to run the risk of meeting the regular tenants, who might treat him as an intruder. [6]
He hoped that there was no offence,--thought it might have been mutooally agreeable, conclooded he would give up the idee of a colation, and backed himself out as if unwilling to expose the less guarded aspect of his person to the risk of accelerating impulses. [6]
You must understand the worst; and again I ask you, are you ready to risk all for those you love? [10]
No one takes the state turnpike nowadays except crazy tourists who are willing to risk their necks and their horses' legs for the sake of scenery. [9]
The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that Nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder. [6]
She had taken the risk with her eyes wide open; had set her own life and happiness in the hazard. [11]
It could dare the risk unpunished. [10]
Otherwise it runs the risk of being a dead letter and a thing to laugh at. [5]
In any case, the risk is immense. [11]
However--on second thought,--if the reader sees any coincidence in this, he must do it at his own risk. [5]
The alphabet of the organization is so short and simple, that I will risk fatiguing your attention by repeating it, according to the plan I have long adopted. [3]
Should he risk the loss of her by timidity? [4]
At last, however, the long-expected messenger came back and brought for answer, that the new king had only visited Phaedime once, but that during that visit she had, at great personal risk, discovered that he had lost both ears. [10]
To risk storming the houses, would have been madness. [10]
The statues of the gods had, before Caesar's arrival, been placed on the pedestals erected for them to prevent any risk of a demonstration at the appearance of the deified emperors. [10]
First I got the doctor, who said that Mr. Vane was gone--at the risk of his life. [9]
Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from--will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake? [7]
It's a delusion that we can insure ourselves by remaining within its walls--we have to risk our lives and our souls. [9]
She was aware that this was a risk she ran in such an attempt to do good. [8]
The American said that the Stars and Stripes and the Coliseum had brought us luck so far, and he'd take the risk if we would. [11]
I never believed that story; I couldn't believe she would be so dead to all motherly instincts as to come here, knowing the risk she would run of getting me into irremediable trouble. [5]
Could he think that she would make advances to tempt his honour, and risk his good opinion and her own? [9]
He had added that she was worth more, much more, but that he could not give her as yet, without the risk of comment, a sum commensurate with the value of her services.... [9]
Yet I saw that he would be runnin' the risk of his own safety for me, and I told him that I could not have him do it; but he talked me lightly down, and we started. [11]
It is all that a wise person will risk. [5]
He expressed his thanks in a few low chords overflowing with yearning and passion; then all was still, for the warder had forbidden him to sing or play at night and he dared not risk losing the man's favor. [10]
The fact that such wounds are attended with peculiar risk has been long noticed. [3]
He had been so much with lawless people, that a life between his wish and his object seemed only as an obstacle to be removed, provided the object were worth the risk and trouble. [6]
I probably feared she might print it, and I couldn't find a way to say so without running a risk of hurting her. [5]
One of my servants gave me a suit of clothes, and when we were safe beyond the town I put them on, and from that time I traveled alone; I could not risk the embarrassment of company. [5]
Mrs. Maturin, Insall, seemed to possess the secret that would bring her peace--and yet, in spite of something urging her to speak, she feared the risk of losing them. [9]
That young man saved your life at the risk of his own. [9]
Still, as he sat brooding and searching the very depths of his soul, he could not help feeling that he had certainly acted rightly and would do the same again, even at the risk of losing her. [10]
Besides, as Dicky said to himself, while Mahommed kept his head, he would not risk parading himself as the servant of the infidel who had invaded the Pasha's harem. [11]
Glaukias had immediately run back, at any risk, to warn Alexander. [10]
It's a great risk, Parpon, my dear son. [11]
It was a risk, however, that had to be run. [9]
It's a fair risk, but it's worth taking. [11]
It was a risk to take, but he could be carried on a litter by careful men, and remain wholly passive during the removal. [6]
He had to risk the money with some one without security. [5]
He would rather risk that than lose all hold upon her. [6]
I run the risk of shocking those who read this by declaring that if my family had been taken permanently out of my life, I should not long have missed them. [9]
And, at the risk of not being believed, I will relate an incident, which was often repeated. [4]
There is little risk of mistaking the Englishman, with or without his family, who has set out to do Switzerland. [4]
Oh, let us risk no more delays. [5]
He may even risk it in Alexandria. [10]
Heedless of the risk he ran, sheer admiration sent Stephen to the carriage door. [9]
He dared not risk crossing the open patches to reach the rocks. [13]
No one would risk a horse with him now. [5]

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