67 Verbs to Use for the Word odds

You an' your mutinous comrades prate loudly of bravery when there is no enemy in sight; but I'll lay odds that not one out of an hundred like you would dare go alone from here to the fort!"

C.N. I don't ask no odds of you or any other guy.

Below, in the engine room, Harris was facing heavy odds.

This is a business proposition, and it makes no odds if we hate each other, so the end is gained.

I had nothing to risk but my life, and it had never been my nature to count odds.

They're offering odds of ten to six that Hanniston wins.

All his designs are greater than the life, and he laughs to think how Nature has mistaken her match, and given him so much odds that he can easily outrun her.

Meantime, they were still picking odds and ends, chiefly metallic, out of various parts of his system.

But I went on the turf with as much simplicity as a girl possesses at her first ball, knowing nothing about public form or the way to calculate odds, to hedge, or do anything but wonder at the number of fools there were in the world.

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It was a fierce, mad fight, fist and club pitted against knife and cutlass, but the defenders knowing well the odds against them, angered by the plight of the girl, realizing that death would be the reward of defeat, struck like demons incarnate, crushing their astounded antagonists back against the bulwark.

" "Oh, but I don't want to go up in the spooky upstairs part," whispered Violet to Billie, as she scraped some odds and ends off on a plate.

I'd want long odds to back it," he said coolly.

Well-said, old man; I'll take thy side, the younger hath the odds.

Lords and dukes backed their opinion in thousands, and the bargee and the ostler gave or took the odds according to the tips, in shillings.

When we consider how really formidable becomes the humblest of quadrupeds, cat or rat, when it grows mad and desperate and throws all personal fear behind, it is clear that there must be a reserved power in human daring which defies computation and equalizes the most fearful odds.

When all these facts are considered, it may cease to be a matter of so much amazement abroad how it happened that our noble Army in Mexico, regulars and volunteers, were victorious upon every battlefield, however fearful the odds against them.

The mettlesome little doctor felt the odds against him in the exchange of greetings.

He was fighting heavy odds, and he knew it, but there was a fighting strain in his nature also.

My life on't Hee had been o'th' Better side, And where hee found false odds, (through Gold or Sloath) There brave Mardonius would have beat them Both.

no waving locks rewarded my patient toil; and at length I had the pleasure of hearing that the crust business was a fable, invented by Ellen's nurse to induce that young lady to finish her odds and ends of bread, which she was very much disposed to scatter about the nursery.

No wonder that now knowledge and practice, and the sort of intensive training he was under, magically fitted all the jumbled odds and ends into place.

32 But virtue can itself advaunce To what the favourite fools of chaunce By fortune seem'd design'd; Virtue can gain the odds of Fate, And from itself shake off the weight Upon the unworthy mind.

While she dwelt mentally upon this, her hands were gathering up some few odds and ends of her belongings on the berth.

She heard whispers of a battle between giantsa financial duel to the deathwith all the odds against Jack Fyfe.

67 Verbs to Use for the Word  odds