" "The risks are the deadliest of all.

If Hill had told his mastereven Birchill would realise the risk of thatthere would be no valuables to get.

He saw that the other three bombers had also commenced to climb, since their mission was now carried out, and further risks would be only a needless hazard.

The risks and the temptations of the profession at the present day are quite as dangerous to its usefulness, its dignity, and its virtue, as the shears and branding-irons that frightened every barrister from signing Prynne's defence, or the writ that sent Maynard to the Tower.

The perpetual improvisation of means, of policy, of expedients, of resources, nothing step by step, everything on the impulse of the moment, the ground never sounded, all risks taken as a whole, the good with the bad, everything chanced on all sides at the same time, the hour, the place, the opportunity, friends, family, liberty, fortune, life,such is the revolutionary conflict.

In a sense, the risk was Osborn's, who would pay for his neglect, but the flood might damage his tenants' fields, and even if the damage were confined to Osborn's, Kit hated to see crops spoiled.

The risk of encountering some one in the hall belowfor there was constant passing and repassing of footsteps during those hoursconstituted my chief danger; but, at all hazards, the experiment must then, if at all, be made.

But this imminent risk is not the only danger attendant on the surrender of the public money to the custody and control of local corporations.

A good doctor is an absolute necessity on an exploring expedition in such a country as that we were in, under penalty of a frightful mortality among the members; and the necessary risks and hazards are so great, the chances of disaster so large, that there is no warrant for increasing them by the failure to take all feasible precautions.

The risks I take in the act with Rosebud are only natural ones, and really shouldn't be counted.

There may be, in the eyes of some, a risk in dwelling in this dark hour on our failures in the past: I believe profoundly that the risk is all the other way.

Of the two risks involvedthe risk of attack arising from a possible superiority of armament on the part of a rival, and the risk of drifting into conflict because, concentrating all our energies on the mere instrument of combat, we have taken no adequate trouble to understand the facts of this caseit is at least an arguable proposition that the second risk is the greater.

The opening of this safe is another matter that need not be gone intoa desperate case justifies desperate risk, and an experienced burglar chaser naturally becomes a bit of a burglar himself; at any rate, the safe swung open in due course, without accident or interference, and the detective stood before it.

" "I should say their greatest risk was Government interference," Kendrick observed.

Wetherill has lost horses on those treacherous slopes, and that risk is the only thing about the trip which is not splendid.

Of the two risks involvedthe risk of attack arising from a possible superiority of armament on the part of a rival, and the risk of drifting into conflict because, concentrating all our energies on the mere instrument of combat, we have taken no adequate trouble to understand the facts of this caseit is at least an arguable proposition that the second risk is the greater.

But, though most business risks are not and cannot be a matter for premiums and policies, the principle, which the practice of insurance illustrates, applies none the less.

In the rut-time, the males, even of the most cowardly species, engage in mortal combats" we see that Hero's risking of death for the sake of his intrigue was not even a mark of exceptional courage; and regarding the quality and nature of his "love" it tells us nothing whatever.