It is a risky thing to try to put love in a lion's face!
It was with a very thankful heart that I realized that the first risky stage of our movement towards the Front was over.
It was sufficiently risky to give a piquance to the experience.
It is astonishing how quickly one grows accustomed to 'fire,' and a very short experience enabled us to go about our work, under risky circumstances, in the most ordinary manner.
I need not remind you that it is a risky voyage for an open boat.
It is not a route for laden animals, but personally, as I had two men to help me, I did not find it so risky or severe as the descent of the Gokun Pass.
I have been obliged to part with the former and send him back to Hamadan, as it would not be safe to take the risky journey to Erzerum with such an inexperienced and untrustworthy servant.
The night in my tent at Pikhruz was much disturbed, and I realised that it is somewhat riskyfor me to have my servants out of hearing in the depths of a semi-subterranean dwelling.
He began his reign with a somewhat risky act by marrying one of his father's widows, who then became the Empress Won.
But the necessary force was not available, and Lord Elgin refused to commit himself to this risky course.
Don't believe they've got one though and it would be too riskyto themselves.
Of course," agreed Mr. Henderson, "although it would be more risky than waiting here.
Bess was too proud, after all, to refuse to meet the terms on which her chum agreed to give the banquet; but it was plain she thought the suggestion a risky one.
Nan began to realize now that this banquet giving was rather a risky thing.
He had Jim Jannaway, the unscrupulous, at his elbow, ready to do any dirty work, or make any risky move which he ordered.
It was a rather risky thing to do, but I used to be so sure of my shooting in those days that I did not so much as mind the risk.
It was a risky thing to go into the country so early, on account of the fever; but I knew that there were one or two others after that lot of ivory, so I determined to have a try for it, and take my chance of fever.
Five additional balloons at that time in readiness were never required for the risky service for which they were designed.
The brothers Braguet were to make an ascent from the Mustapha Plain in a small fire balloon heated with burning straw, and this risky performance was successfully carried out by the enterprising aeronauts.
I never find it necessary to curette the cavity, which must always be a risky proceeding.
If the natural ostium sphenoidale be not visible it would be risky to make an artificial opening without first determining by radiography the presence and size of the sinus.
Mining's always got its risky side, even cutting out sickness, which we've had a big sample of right this winter.
Of course you know that nothing is so risky as the development of rubber plantations.
Come: I've waited twenty minutes; it would be risky to wait longer; let's get to work!
The French held the road right away to the Pyrenees, not so strongly perhaps as to forbid hope, but strongly enough to make an attempt upon it risky in the extreme.
Dick," said I, "there are a couple of steep hills to descend, and that is risky with a single shaft.
It contained no blood-curdling episodes, no hair-breadth escapes, no risky situations; it was simply a transcript of life in a little English country town.
Owing to the disposition of forces it was a risky job to keep up artillery fire, and soon the shells began to do as much damage among the Germans as to the British or French.
It’s not sorisky as you would think on the battlefield.
It requires a lot of courage, and is terribly risky all through: A Corporal of the Middlesex Regiment.
The more riskythe project seems the greater, generally speaking, must be the expectation of profit required to induce people to undertake it.
What would be the return which must be expected from the risky enterprise, in the event of its succeeding, before it will be undertaken?
So great, indeed, would be the risk to him, that we can lay it down as a sound maxim that people are extremely rash who invest their money in risky undertakings about which they know very little.
First, it is necessary to envisage distinctly the promising though risky opportunity, and this calls not infrequently for imagination of a none too common order.
Meanwhile the above considerations have an important bearing on the rewards which can often be obtained from risky enterprises.
As the Pope pronounced these last words he smiled a pale smile, in which the shrewd, conciliatory politician, who was determined not to allow his infallibility to be compromised in useless and risky ventures, was fully revealed.
There was no use asking for a volunteer for no sane person longed for this risky job, so I approached a strapping young fellow by the name of Lawson and accosted him with: "Lawson, coming with me?
To get it was such a risky proposition that there were no "detail parties" formed in the daytime, and any one who went in quest of it, did so at his own risk.
But I'm afraid that's too risky a job for me to back up, as the leader of the patrol.
And that ended the long, hard, risky time the company of Volunteers for Discovery of the Northwest had in crossing the Continental Divide.
And now," went on Rob, "they were once more against that same old veryrisky proposition of a divided party, part in boats and part on shore.
It was the naval way of bidding farewell to a comrade about to undertake a risky enterprise--a pithy expression conveying a wealth of possibilities of thought.
It seemed a risky thing to do--to send up a couple of rockets from a British craft that was lying four or five miles only from the line of German patrol-boats--but there was no option.
He spoke of a 'risky job', which certainly means something dishonest.
It 'ud be a risky enough job, but I know you don't stop at a trifle.
