I can but hope, Madame, that the sacrifices may be made up to you, and that the risks may prove illusory.
It was very naughty of me, I know, but I was frightened at the thought of the risks you have run, and how all this might have ended.
With her usual prudence, Jean refused to engage in risks which she had not sufficient knowledge to guide or strength to control, and a change was made in their business relations, and each continued to prosper in the chosen way.
In separating these people here from their money and their jewels, it is not the money and the jewels that I care for so much as the delicious risks I incur in getting them.
Raffles estimated that your habit of writing-up full accounts of his various burglaries for the London magazines had made the risks one hundred per cent.
She remembered Nenci's covert threat, and knew well what risks her lover ran.
Hazards many we both have shared, Enduring as men endure-- With faith and fire all risks we dared, Knowing the end was sure.
Then you are forgetting what I have endured for you--all the toil and travail of these weeks of search--the risks I have taken to find you, the risks I took this morning.
He was already wondering what the chances were of making the passage through in safety, and was half-inclined to surrender to the current and take the risks ahead, when his eye caught that which spurred him to fresh efforts.
In addition it was Doña Rita who would have to do the persuading; for, after all, such an enterprise with its ugly and desperate risks was not a trifle to put before a man—however young.
This excluded for the moment all considerations of ways and means and risks and difficulties.
However the rational nature of man has come to be, whether by emanation or creation, it necessarily brings freedom with it, and all its risks and possibilities.
Such should, by every consideration of justice and fair dealing, be paid according to their merits, and the risks and liabilities they incur.
At the same time, I will do myself the justice to say that physical risks were not my first consideration.
One takes risks when one intrudes on the loves of the giants.
Joe had determined to run great risks this voyage, in the hopes of making large profits, and had invested a large part of his property in the venture, which his agent had prepared ready for shipment at Cherbourg.
It was also necessary to run some risks to gain our ends.
The long boom swung outboard, the schooner swung round, and as she swept in for the reefs with the wind on her quarter now the lads realized as well as the others did, the risks the skipper was quietly taking.
The risks are going to be heavy, because until we get it all quite straight we may lose the catch quite often before we can put it on the market, and there's always chances of losing the schooner, while you'd have to take too much on trust.
Still the men of the Champlain faced such risks almost daily in the misty seas, and when the boat was stripped they and the Indians quietly set about flaying the seals.
The risks which they would have run if they had remained on board throughout are taken into account, as will presently appear, in estimating how much of the damage is to be made good.
Before a man risks his money, he takes care to make some inquiries.
However, he often risks his all on the most unlucky cards.
To-morrow was to-day, and the white petticoat was lying in the little house in the mountains, and her wedding was an interminable distance off, so had this adventure drawn her into its risks and toils and haggard exhaustion.
Parry has not only pointed out the 'risks and dangers of various occupations': he has suggested means for their prevention.
We have the peculiar risks and dangers of all the dangerous trades carefully described; the mode of action of various chemicals, etc.
The piece is attacked by persons as thoroughly informed beforehand as the author of the risks of this somewhat novel situation.
Latouche's redundant imagination had found a way of skating over the risks of danger which threatened ordinary authors.
Although smarting from her wound, and despite the protests of Antonicq, Cornelia Mirant determined to share with Theresa Rennepont the risks of the nocturnal expedition after clams.
Who could anticipate that the man who so carefully weighed the respective risks of different methods of visiting the sick, would, at the same time, be full of a glad willingness, indeed desire, to die for them?
I know all about those risks which people speak about with bated breath, and I should like you to know that I am quite able to take care of myself.
I ranrisks the memory of which will haunt me all my days.
A capable and corrupt eunuch would run heavy risksto gain such a prize.
She knew, none better, what any success, little or big, might be worth in risks run.
A higher rate of interest is obtainable on enterprises in an undeveloped country than in a developed one, provided the risks connected with an unsettled government can be minimized.
To minimize these risks the financiers call in the assistance of the military and naval forces of the country which they are momentarily asserting to be theirs.
Besides the drawbacks I have mentioned already--damage to crops from sudden storms, and gluts in the market from excess of supply--there are other risks to run.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "risks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
