To boldly fall upon the sentry was risky, for the slightest noise would bring rescue from the front of the bluff.

It's too risky.

"I'm through with this sort of risky game.

Jan Smuts suffered the same fever as we did, ate our food, and his personal courage in private and most risky reconnaissances filled us with admiration and fear, lest disaster from some German patrol might overtake him.

It's too risky.

"It ain't easy, and it's mighty risky.

He amused the public by telling it a lie, but P. T. Barnum never tried anything so risky as deception.

And they were risky onesfor me.

"Will it not be far too risky to let him take my Notes even if you do shadow him closely afterwards?

"If you really thought it was too risky," I added carelessly, "I would give up the idea.

"It's pretty risky business, isn't it?"

Anne darling, this is going to be a very risky business.

English vessels were perpetually running the blockade to bring cotton to England and goods to the Southern portsa risky but highly profitable business.

A council of the elders of Vaieri opposed me, but yielded to my persistence by advising me at least to ride as far as possible in the cart along the western road, and to find, nearer to Tautira, in Maora, or farther on, in Puforatoai, a canoe and canoeists for the risky attempt.

But this was risky; it would bring him in view of a kitchen window whence some busybody might observe him.

I am possessed of a certain pluck, inherited courage, which would carry me through many bold adventures and risky enterprises.

Not one of the men I know here would take another chance as risky as this, once they were out of it.

Captain Spark had sent Bob below, as it was risky for any one but an experienced sailor to move about the constantly sloping deck.

And in your discourse take care to observe the rules of decorum and modesty, and be sure to avoid rather risky tales; do not whisper such to another, and do not indulge them too frequently in sport.

As luck would have it the place was ideal for a bear, but risky for a hunter.

Mr. Fink thought the idea was a good one; but he owned it was a little risky.

He therefore cultivates flippancy as a fine art, and becomes noted for a certain cheap cynicism, which he sprinkles like a quasi-intellectual pepper over the strong meat of risky conversation.

This is perhaps a little risky in such a climate as ours, and in a month so doubtfully hovering on the borders of winter as September; but the sun is shining, and we therefore make up our minds, contrary to all precedent, that he must necessarily go on shining.

The insular maniac overlooks the continent of Europe, instead of studying it, and seeking what countries there are safe and others risky.

"It's a risky thing for a doctor to do, but he is a student of human nature as well as human anatomy.

Aunt Delia McCormick told her parrot story, which was risqué, even when no gentlemen were present, for the parrot said "damn it!"

And I've always understood that you made a great point of never doing anything which you considered in the least risqué.

At all events she shone like a great cocotte among her competitors, though her real asset was a line of risqué stories, and a certain gift for low songs.

The gallant Colonel not only married the ex-Countess but became so flirtatious with at least one other woman that he suggested to Cibber the most risqué scene in the "Careless Husband."

Uncle John was as gay and attentive as I suppose he was on the journeythis is how they speak of itand made one or two quite risqué jokes down the ear trumpet, and Aunt Maria blushed and looked so coy.

The conversations everywhere are all absolutely "jeune fille"; never anything the least "risqué," though it is often amusing.

lt was a certain amount of delicately risqué talk.

The style of the Paysan parvenu is simpler, less diffuse, bolder, and more virile, than that of Marianne; but its characters are uniformly less noble, and, if its general intent is not immoral, at least many of the scenes verge upon the risqué.