Risks

Examples

• What Mr Harmon risks, is quite another pair of shoes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am braver than I was, because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If she were ill-used, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I knew he was extravagant, but I did not think that he would be so mean as to hang his risks on his oldest friend, who could the least afford to lose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Don't offend any one and make useless risks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not everyone may feel that to push out into the untried, and take risks for big prizes, is worth while. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You observe he never risks saying Roylands, but always addresses you as Mr Maurice—Maurice is of course a Greek name. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You see I took no risks in being so. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Let me entreat you to run no risks. Jane Austen. Emma.
• After the battle of the Wilderness, it was evident that the enemy deemed it of the first importance to run no risks with the army he then had. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Oh, Marian, run no risks--pray, pray run no risks! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Don' know, ma'am; I've lost one five hundred dollars from this yer place, and I can't afford to run no more risks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• At all risks of being run over, I must see the number, and hear the order given to the coachman. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I now find, after over thirty days of trial, the enemy deems it of the first importance to run no risks with the armies they now have. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With a less skilful general, and one disposed to take no risks, I have no doubt that he would have succeeded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But you run great risks, allow me to say, in being so indiscreet. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If he risks his own person and limbs, father, said Rebecca, in doing such a dreadful battle, he can scarce be expected to spare his horse and armour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I declare, my very blood runs cold when I think of it,--your condition and your risks! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• When Dorothea had left him, he reflected that he had certainly spoken strongly: he had put the risks of marriage before her in a striking manner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Miss Fairfax, you must not run such risks. Jane Austen. Emma.

Editor: Matt