Ever loyal to the Crown, he had boasted that Cromwell's forces would notrisk an attack on the colony.
At the riskof dashing out her brains against the stones, she made extraordinary efforts to escape from her ravisher's arms.
Instead of trying to pass between the canoes, in which he ran a risk of being sunk, he kept to the left, and advanced in a straight line on the canoe nearest to him.
Irish would undertake to beard the lion in his den, but the Emperor did not see his way clear to accepting the risk himself.
It was obvious to him and his council that, if he died with no children but Mary, England ran the risk of being plunged into an anarchy worse than that of the civil wars.
And acts of attainder were neither more nor less than deliberate pronouncements, on the part of the people, that it was expedient that one man should die rather than that the whole nation should perish or run any risk of danger.
He ran the great risk of his life in his invasion of England, but henceforth he left nothing to chance.
To make any difference in your attitude toward Helga would be to run therisk of betraying your secret.
A greater risk than that of money depended on the issue of the nest coup, and both men knew it.
He did not flinch--he doubled his risk and played on.
We naturally expected some support from Mr. Bayard and other Democratic Senators, who, no doubt, were in favor of specie payments, but they perhaps thought it best not to share the risk of the measure.
Who would risk such a question to the changing votes of Congress?
At all events, I would not risk a suit or contest on that phase of the question.
Johnson is not a man of action but of theory, and so long as your party is in doubt as to the true mode of procedure, it would be at great risk that an attempt be made to displease the President by a simple law of Congress.
No party can administer a government, that will not take therisk of temporary defeat when it is pursuing what, in the opinion of the great masses of it, is a beneficial policy for the country.
Is it to defeat these ideas that you would risk scenes of violence in the House, or the subversion of the constitution by the Senate of the United States?
No one could then foresee how the legislature to be elected in the fall would stand politically, and my friends would hardly risk the loss of a Republican Senator, through my resignation, to compliment me with an election as governor.
Since that time, I understand that a good road has been made up the valley, by which tourists can enjoy the grandest scenery in nature, without the risk we took.
This will greatly lessen the risk and labor of collections both to the treasury and the banks.
He could not hope successfully to combat all the different squadrons looking for him, nor, for that matter, did he wish to risk his ships, for there were no others to replace them.
As the Carmania was totally unfit for further action, it was deemed advisable to avoid the risk of another engagement, so she steamed off at full speed in a southerly direction.
If I were told that in such-and-such a country one often found a lion in one's bath, I might be prepared to risk it.
It would be taking a certain risk of course, and he did not want to expose his chums to any unnecessary chances for getting hurt; but all the same temptation loomed up large before Jack's eyes.
I really don't see why we should be called on to take the place of a sheriff's posse every little while, and risk our precious lives.
Think we went to all that trouble and risk to turn the proceeds over to a passel o' kids so easy?
But if she saw that Gray Cloud would surely die anyway, of freezing, would it not then be best to take the risk of waking him?
So as not to risk wasting a shot, he took his finger off the trigger.
This was why he had wanted to stay behind with Wolf Paw, even at the cost of delaying his reunion with Redbird, even at the risk of his life.
You don't want me to stay here and risk getting killed," he said.
Do you think they would risk themselves in a boat of such small tonnage?
It was the coffer which Ayrton had saved at the risk of his life, at the very instant that the island had been engulfed, and which he now faithfully handed to the engineer.
That's impossible, for she would risk running aground and being lost!
The convicts might profit by the high tide to enter the channel, with the risk of grounding at low tide, it is true; but then, under the fire from her guns, our posts would be no longer tenable.
The settlers followed it at the risk of occasioning a fall of the slightly-balanced rocks, and being dashed into the sea.
They were then careful to cover their eyes and mouths with handkerchiefs, for they ran the risk of being blinded and suffocated.
He knows well that it would risk the brig, if the sea got up ever so little!
But they are not aware that this would be to incur the risk of blowing up a portion of the globe, like a boiler whose steam is suddenly expanded by intense heat.
I have, therefore, reason to believe that our guns will bear without risk the expansion of the pyroxile gas, and will give excellent results.
As an excess of precaution, Pencroft, Neb, and Ayrton drew it up on a little beach which bordered one of the sides of the grotto, in a spot where it could run no risk of harm.
You may riskyour own life, if you please; it is natural that you should run at least the risk of contagion, but you have no right to risk another life than your own by uselessly wearing out your strength.
Duelling was an abominable sin, of course; but Ghisleri, at least, was alone in the world and could risk his soul and body without the danger of bringing unhappiness on others.
No man would risk his reputation for truthfulness by describing our life as it is.
I was willing to risk everything, and I did, blindly, for the sake of a real love.
If the latter supposition is the true one, it would be much better that we should leave the whole matter to our respective lawyers rather than run the risk of useless discussion.
Do you think you have any right to risk your life in this way?
As for risking my life, there is no risk at all in the matter.
It was tiresome standing in the road, and, as she dared not sit down and risk finding snakes, she decided to climb up the side of the butte and look out over the country.
But it was too serious a matter to risk the first impression that such an appearance would make upon Lloyd, so she trudged on with a resolute shake of her little blond braids and big blue bows.
If I hadn't seen you risk your life fifteen or twenty thousand times I'd say you're a dandy.
If I may risk a surmise, I think it is merely a Christmas greeting.
It was an old risk to him, and he had the advantage of great natural aptitude, fortified by long training in a school of practice where a single misstep meant death.
The Afridis were too wise to risk a general engagement.
I could not realize the risk of such an encroachment when I read the following sentence printed on my billet of invitation:-- "Dancing to commence at 4 P.
He will not risk being the first man shot, though his band may overpower the enemy afterward.
For," said he, "we risk our lives for him, yet he trusteth us not.
For he said that whosoever followed him must be prepared to risk all for his sake.
Would a procurator have dared to risk the peace of the whole province for a little matter?
Let no one who is not reliably happy on board ship attempt to cross the water and run the risk of ending her wedding-day in the terribly unbecoming condition caused by mal de mer.
He will be careful not to take her to any place of amusement where she would feel out of her element, or run the risk of being snubbed by any of his own rich friends.
He will not call at such times as would be inconvenient and run the risk of ructions, simply because he knows she will be glad to see him.
It is a risk {90} to dress the hair to suit the veil rather than the face.
Do we fear the cold, and the wet, more than the risk of being taken by the wicked Danes?
It is one of the habits of kings to insult their present servants by praising those whom they have lost, and to attribute the virtue of truthful speaking to those from whom there is no further risk of hearing it.
For instance, if I should be able to save a man's children from a great danger with no risk to myself, I should not hesitate to do so.
I see crystal vessels, whose price is enhanced by their fragility, for among the ignorant the risk of losing things increases their value instead of lowering it, as it ought.
I should be his enemy, if, when he is willing to risk himself for me, if I were not to risk myself without him, which moreover is easier for me to do.
But so far as the British officers are concerned, our sketch will have indicated the main lines of their daily routine, its security on the whole from the worst forms of coercion, and on the other hand its exposure to grave risk and hardship.
Rearing is less common than shying, but more dangerous from the risk of pulling the horse over backward.
Wherever the infinite exists and there is not an infinity of chances of loss against that of gain, there is no room for hesitation, you mustrisk the whole.
For instance, no one doubts that we ought to risk our lives for the common weal, and many do so.
