" The quest of the candle would take the guide to the closet in the guard-room, and, risking little to learn much, Dick struck a match and peered into the stuffy little room, more like a corn-crib than a prison-cell.

We were risking our lives foolishly, and when the old soldier spoke of making a circle from that point, in a tone which told that he was very well contented with himself and what he had done, I lost my temper, and replied, sharply: "Ay, we have got through the lines safely because of the storm, which was a lucky chance in our favor, and one we could not have foreseen when you were so foolish as to propose that we go back to-night.

General Bulfin realised it would be risking heavy losses to ask his troops to make another immediate effort against a numerically stronger enemy in positions of his own choice, and he therefore applied to General Allenby that the XXth Corpsthe 60th Division was already at Latron attached to the XXIst Corpsmight take over the line.

But this we do knowthat to mend one act of villainy by committing a fresh one, is not wisdom, but foolishness; and we may be sure that our Lord would never have held up the unjust steward as an example to us, or quoted his master's opinion of him, if all he did was to commit fraud on fraud, and make bad worse, thereby risking his own more utter ruin.

"And yet it is hard to feel, as I cannot help feeling, that the thunder-cloud is forming, that the bolt is almost ready to strike, and that you are risking life, and perhaps more than life, out of a delicacy no other man would show towards a childsince child you will have herwho, I feel sure, deserves all she might receive from the hands of one who would have the truth at any cost.

If they possess any degree of power, then fear for their own skins, prevents them from risking its exercise.

"He's risking his life to go into that pit of flame.

In other words, you seem to us to be risking the complete cessation, for a period possibly, of years, of all education, for a large number of boys and young men.

The doctor visited him regularly, and they had difficulties such as will occur between men learning to understand each other pretty well, and so risking all debate.

I feel that we shall be risking little in attempting what, to many, might seem the most difficult task ever undertaken by a submarine.

"You'll get yourself killed if you keep risking it.

There was nothing to do but accept the failure, or else make a still more desperate effort to rectify his position, risking everything on a final play.

They could not fire without risking a miss that would be certain to lodge a bullet in the body of one of the men before Sinclair.

This diversion General Lee now proceeded to make; and although we have no authority to state that his object was to follow up the blow, if it were successful, by an evacuation of his lines at Petersburg, it is difficult to conceive what other design he could have had in risking an operation so critical.

Ireland was already in a state so miserable that the horrors of a civil war with a bare chance of better things beyond must have seemed well worth risking to her people, now the party which had hitherto befriended them had adopted the policy of their oppressors.

The choice of action lay between chasing him and going on to Breuil, risking the loss of my knapsack.

The crew of the sound boat had hard work to keep people from trying to return and save their luggage, thus risking not only their own lives but at the same time impeding the escape of others.

The cowgirls are shown as risking all for Krishna, as loving him above all else but none is singled out for mention and none emerges as a rival.

Eskimos: No morality or chastity; Not modest or coy; Ungallant; Risking life for a woman; Assaults; Mutilations; Tattooing; Tattoo marks and husbands; Filthy; "Love-unions;" Capacity for love.

Angelique has contrived to-day to negotiate the sale of some bracelets, which a lady, with whom I was acquainted previous to our detention, has very obligingly given almost half their value for, though not without many injunctions to secresy, and as many implied panegyrics on her benevolence, in risking the odium of affording assistance to a foreigner.

It is not for a person no better informed than myself to pronounce on systems of governmentstill less do I affect to have more enlarged notions than the generality of mankind; but I may, without risking those imputations, venture to say, I have no childish or irrational deference for the persons of Kings.

Those who would gladly take an active part in endeavouring to establish a good government, are averse from risking their lives and properties in the cause of Brissot or Condorcet.

Angelique has contrived to-day to negotiate the sale of some bracelets, which a lady, with whom I was acquainted previous to our detention, has very obligingly given almost half their value for, though not without many injunctions to secresy, and as many implied panegyrics on her benevolence, in risking the odium of affording assistance to a foreigner.

" "This is no jest, Numa; you are risking your own life.

I was risking everything on the skill and pluck of the man who paced the bridge above my head, and on the efficiency of the British patrol of the seas.