"Run a risk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a nurse, Prudence. We couldn't let you run a risk like that. It would not be right. If I could take care of her ...
— Prudence of the Parsonage • Ethel Hueston
... to run a risk. He ordered the trunks opened immediately. But to our disappointment they were almost empty. There was scarcely a thing of value in them. Most of the contents consisted of clothes that had plainly been made in America and were being brought back here. It was another false scent. We had been played ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... hardly knew. I am not blaming you. You have never pretended to be anything but what you are. I blame myself for hoping—thinking—but, by George, you'd be an utter dead weight on a man if it was ever up to you to face an epidemic, or run a risk, or do one-twentieth of the things that those very ancestors of yours, that you're so proud of, ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... jealousy or variance, as Mr. Mainwaring says truly, is Mr. Mason. I certainly never excelled in poetry, and never attempted the species of poetry alluded to, odes. Dr. Lort, I suppose, is removing to a living or a prebend, at least; I hope so. He may run a risk if he carries his book to Lambeth. "Sono sonate venti tre ore e mezza," as Alexander VIII. said to his nephew, when he was chosen pope in extreme old age. My Lord of Canterbury's is not extreme, but very tottering. I found in Mr. Gough's new edition, that in the Pepysian library is a view of the ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... feel able to do. But then, on the other hand, we claim the liberty of leaving uncut other books in our science, which, however entertaining they may be in other respects, are not likely to contain any new facts. In doing this, we run a risk, but ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller |
