Imitating the cautious tactics of Braccio, and emulating the fame of Fabius Cunctator, he reduced the art of war to a system of manoeuvres, and rarely risked his fortune in the field.
Remorse and shame invaded him, especially when news arrived that the mistress, for whom he had risked all, was turning to a dissolute life (as we shall shortly read) in her monastery.
You have risked much for me, but you shall not risk your life again, in my cause.
He had risked his life to secure it, and now the crumpled, blood-stained paper had been taken away from him by a person whom it could not interest in any way whatever.
Therefore we shall hold fast to it, remembering that we risked much in removing it from the lamented Stroebel's archives.
If I'd been in the habit of wearin' false hair or teeth or anything that wa'n't growed to or buttoned on me I'd never have risked a trip in one of those omnibuses.
The fact that she had risked offending one so closely connected with the real thing on Fifth Avenue and Wall Street was too dreadful.
He has protected me from worse than death, and in order to do this he risked his own life, and he pledged his honour for me that I would engage in no plots--do nothing against the Republic.
To his honour be it said that he risked his life, and more than his life, to save some two hundred of his prisoners, but for the rest--their doom was sealed.
He risked the child that we'd waited and watched fer, slings her somehow over his shoulder in his blanket, and comes right back to help me.
Zebulun risked its life, Naphtali on the heights of the field.
Beatrice had not idly risked what would have been a deplorable fiasco; she had the encouragement of those who did not speak in vain, and her ambition had fired itself as she perceived the results of her conscientious labour.
In some manner Dagworthy had learned what had happened to her father in Hebsworth, and had risked everything on the terror he could inspire in her.
But he also thought that his friend must be at least a little better off than he had hitherto supposed--not that he himself, having the same means as Arthur, would not have risked as much and more without a qualm.
When the guinea-pigs gave out, she made him no more offers and risked no more invitations.
Risked it must be, not only because his feelings ardently demanded an end to his suit, but lest he should become ridiculous in his own eyes.
Had Russia risked a great battle and lost it, the historical illusion of which I speak would treat the campaign as a designed preface to the battle.
It is characteristic of his generalship that he risked an assault with this advance body of his without waiting for the main part of the army under the Duke of Baden to come up.
Had Russia risked such a battle and been successful, the historical illusion of which I speak would call the strategy of the advance faulty.
We could no longer remain in that ruined capital, which he hadrisked everything to obtain; and Lauriston's mission to Kutusoff proved a failure.
In the hour of his necessity she would not break with the man who had risked his all to save her.
He had slain the woman who loved him, the woman who had risked her life for his sake, and her shade would assuredly drive him back to his hermitage or to the gallows.
If he had been suffering from some deadly and contagious malady she would have risked her life to help him, without a thought that there was any wonderful heroism in such self-devotion.
This invitation was promptly accepted in the spirit in which it was given; and three days after, Jerome found himself at the princely residence of the father of the lady for whose safety he had risked his own life.
True to woman's nature, she had risked her own liberty for another's.
True, this was an adventure upon which she had risked her all, and should her heart be foiled in this search for hidden treasures, her affections would be shipwrecked forever.
My brother," she said, "it is you have risked your life to save mine.
You are an ungrateful woman who slanders her friend, a jealous women who defames another, and that woman the wife of a man who has for three days risked his life a score of times for you--the wife of George Count of Charny.
Gilbert, for whom I had risked death a hundred times, and the joy of finding him made me forget that and a lot more.
The poor souls became frightened as Easter came near, thinking they risked damnation by confessing to a priest who had sworn to the Constitution, and I must confess, it was on my advice that they went to Rome.
I had lost nearly three hundred louis, but I had risked more than five hundred, and I looked on the difference as pure profit.
If I had been like the English, who carry a light purse for the benefit of the highwaymen, I would have thrown it to these poor wretches; but, as it was, I risked my life rather than be robbed.
Of course," said Landon, "and I should have risked taking him with me if I could have obtained permission.
It was a wild scheme, if you like, but it was either that or certain ruin, and I'd have risked it myself without the slightest hesitation.
I have written several letters on your account; I have risked offending several friends.
Women were hardly less inveterate devotees of this and other games of chance than the men, although it is not to be concluded that they took such games as seriously or risked as large sums as did the other sex.
For the Germans were such inveterate gamblers that money, goods, chattels, their wives, and even their own liberty, were often risked by the casting of dice.
Then, when they had slept thus, in an anxious sleep, for two nights, they risked removing their clothes, and slipping between the sheets.
They would not have exposed themselves for their first crime, which they had so cleverly concealed, and yet they risked the guillotine, in committing a second, which they did not even attempt to hide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "risked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
