Take that one desire for change, for risking something we hold dear for some other thing that lies beyond us.
His opportunity came in the Russo-Turkish War, where he displayed notable dash and gallantry, risking his life recklessly in the terrible conflict at Plevna.
You are now riskingyour life to serve us, and we should not desert you to save ourselves.
Because I've no idea of risking my life by running an ambush, where, no doubt, twenty or thirty natives are stationed, determined to kill the first one who passes.
I have beenrisking my salvation by swearing through thick and thin that you went to Jersey on Tuesday.
And yet, what must her feelings be toward him, since she had come here to see him, venturing so far and risking so much?
Dear senor," said he, "I have had too many affairs to be afraid of risking my reputation as a man of honor by postponing our little meeting.
Since Gaston was risking his life in order to see her, she could no longer doubt that something fearful had occurred at Clameran.
Now, at the moment of riskingthis decisive step, she felt paralyzed with fright.
Indeed, indeed, it isrisking a valuable life most rashly.
At length, however, he became weary of the contest, and saw that he must soon bring it to a termination somehow, although he still felt an invincible disinclination to risking such a lunge as might deprive his adversary of life.
As soon as he was able, Papa got him in there, and he was glad to go, for that seemed the proper place, and a charity the proudest man might accept, after risking his life for his country.
As these thoughts passed through her mind Ruth was swimming stoutly, and trying by cheerful words to keep the frightened child from risking their main chance of safety.
Wherefore the need of risking so many lives, at such a moment, with a Column outside, on its way to set us free?
I don't see any use in risking our lives and my master's motor-car, because you want to get home.
A golf tournament, however, is scarcely worth risking your life for, is it?
She would have yielded him admission--risking her father's questions and perhaps her own answer to them--if he had pressed.
Mrs. Freere could take very good care of herself, and, all question of principles apart, had no idea of risking the position and the comforts she enjoyed.
She was on her mettle, fighting warily, risking no points.
There is no honour in wantonly risking or taking life, Harvey.
To these powerful motives against risking an engagement, other considerations of great weight were added, founded on the condition of his soldiers.
Having allowed his army one day for repose and refreshment, General Washington recrossed the Schuylkill, and proceeded on the Lancaster road, with the intention of risking another engagement.
I do not absolutely disapprove of a young man risking somewhat more than necessary in his own person, but I do strongly disapprove of his acting rashly when in a command, such as that entrusted to you this evening.
Indirect suicide is unlawful and has the guilt of self-murder when the reason for risking death is frivolous or insufficient or sinful.
The soldier gains his bread, by the risking of his head,'" murmured the irrepressible Fatima.
At times absorbed with fear lest she should have betrayed the King, she had been ready to seek out Birbal and tell him the truth, risking her own life.
Putting the brute force of the mass of the people into action would doubtless save Paris and insure me the crown without incurring the horrors of civil war, but it would likewise be risking thousands of French lives.
The nobles remonstrated with the king for so risking his life, but Ferdinand unselfishly answered,— “I cannot stop to calculate chances, when my subjects are perilling their lives for my sake.
I had also believed, because I could see no reason why Anne Garth, risking much to deliver the message, should deceive me.
I stammered that I meant to go at such a pace it would be risking her life to grant the request.
The dwarf felt that he was risking his own life on the hope of seeing his goddess, for what would Rufus Carder say to him when he finally returned to the farm, a deserter from his duty.
There would seem to be no question of returning to the irate farmer to get her clothing, yet that might be the very thing Ben was doing now; risking his precious life again for this stranger who was nothing to them.
I can never believe that the merchants and bankers of this country will prove unwilling to emancipate themselves, if they can do it without risking the resentment of the bank.
He was free now to follow his desperate plot to its end without risking his schemes of fortune.
Before, however, he could close it again shifted; but the French admiral finding that his rear could not escape, suddenly took the resolution of risking a general action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "risking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gambling; play; playing; speculation; sporting
