"Run a risk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... afternoon gathering in pseudo-places of worship. Certainly, they told a number of flamboyant falsehoods before getting into office, but that was the only respect in which they copied civilised political methods; and they did run a risk from which their English counterparts would have shrunk in a cold sweat of fear. The price of failure ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt
... 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 |
