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Example sentences for "hazard"

Lexicographically close words:
haythen; haythin; haythins; haywire; haz; hazarde; hazarded; hazarding; hazardous; hazards
  1. Should he prefer that suit, or might he still by one deep night and one great hand at hazard win back the thirty thousand guineas he had lost in five years?

  2. I heard, Sir George, that my Lady Hazard had proved an inconstant mistress of late?

  3. The engagement was renewed at this place with the utmost fury, and not a man of the broken army would have escaped, had not Villagran opened the pass at the utmost hazard of his life.

  4. But that experience induced him to conduct the war on prudent principles of defence, rather than to hazard the loss of that part of Chili which was subject to Spain.

  5. In a dangerous country there can be no comparison between the hazard of a tent and that of a bivouac.

  6. I considered it was very improbable that a person taken at hap-hazard should be capable of tying his man securely; and it was evident that the improbability would be increased in a duplicate ratio, that both persons should be capable.

  7. Grace Hazard Conkling] Oh, cut me reeds to blow upon, Or gather me a star, But leave the sultry passion-flowers Growing where they are.

  8. Grace Hazard Conkling] "There will come Soft Rain".

  9. Grace Hazard Conkling] I have an understanding with the hills At evening when the slanted radiance fills Their hollows, and the great winds let them be, And they are quiet and look down at me.

  10. Most theologians and casuists, however, have pronounced strongly against all games into which hazard enters, as if such were at all times unlawful.

  11. A Flemish clergyman, in a historical treatise on this subject, published about the middle of the seventeenth century, gravely maintains that all games of hazard are contrary to every one of the ten commandments.

  12. In the Scriptures we do not find games of hazard forbid.

  13. Others have imagined that they have discovered in the very nature of games of hazard something which renders them essentially sinful; supporting their views by an argument which, though extremely specious, is yet easily refuted.

  14. All writers who have investigated the principles of morality agree in the condemnation of Gaming,--that is, playing at any game of hazard for the sake of gain.

  15. Notwithstanding this, games of hazard are nowhere forbidden in the New Testament, though no tolerance is there shown to any kind of vice.

  16. Such chimerical arguments, when divested of all figure, only show that games of hazard are frequently the cause of disorder.

  17. Rest satisfied, then, my love, with the happiness you enjoy, nor hazard its destruction by that which cannot possibly increase it.

  18. One dare hazard no more than a guess at Gilbert's offence, but the guess is tolerably safe that he, like Abelard, insisted on discussing and analyzing the Trinity.

  19. If you knew what a consolation it would be to Lady Peggy to hear of your unwillingness to hazard your precious person in such company, 'twould ease your mind and heart.

  20. Peggy, with eager eyes and a sixpence shining in her hand (another shilling's more than she dare hazard of her slender store).

  21. I wyll loue hir, and cary lyke affection for the loue which I know and see that she beareth vnto me, beinge assured that the same is directed to good ende, and that a Woman so wyse as she is, will not hazard the bleamish of hir honor.

  22. The citizens are all ready to aid you, and to sustain you at the hazard of their lives; but they look to you to go forward, and to act in their name and in their behalf, in the crisis which is now approaching.

  23. Some began to be willing to make Caesar king; others were determined to hazard their lives to prevent it.

  24. Hazard came up also at that point, on his return from the volcano, altering his course a little to speak the strangers.

  25. Hazard hailed the Vineyard Lion, and demanded what was to be done.

  26. The schooner had been described by Hazard as 'jumping' into the sea.

  27. Hazard had got in his flying-jib, and had taken the bonnets off his foresail and jib, to prevent the craft burying.

  28. This was coolly and calmly said; though it was clear enough that Hazard was quite in earnest.

  29. Instead of satisfying himself with cutting a passage merely behind the point of rock, Hazard opened one quite up into the cove, to the precise place where the schooner had been so long at anchor.

  30. At the same time, Hazard himself went to the helm.

  31. The snow had long ceased, but not until an immense quantity had fallen; nearly twice as much, Roswell and Hazard thought, as they had seen on the rocks at any time that winter.

  32. But may we not hazard the safety of our Republic should we ever constitute, under the name of a select militia, a small body to be disciplined in a camp with all the pomp & splendor of a regular army?

  33. They properly considered themselves as called by GOD, and warranted by HIM, to encounter every hazard in the common cause of Man.

  34. Instead of a union of States and measures, essential to the welfare of a great nation, each State is jealous of its neighbor, and struggling for the superiority in wealth and importance, at the hazard even of our federal existence.

  35. If there is any thing on earth, which can make a rational mind disgusted with society, it is that cruel necessity, which obliges a person to sacrifice both his interest and his taste, or run the hazard of being laughed at for his singularity.

  36. They show the hazard and impracticability of making changes, before the minds of the body of the people are prepared for the innovation.

  37. Rather than hazard such an abuse of privilege, is it not better to leave the right altogether with your rulers and your posterity?

  38. They give us their fashions, they direct our taste to make a market for their commodities; they engross the profits of our industry, without the hazard of defending us, or the expense of supporting our civil government.

  39. His doubtful chance of success in such a hazard obviously lay in his being able to attack each enemy separately: that is, to engage first one before the second came to his aid; then the second; and thus to defeat each in turn.

  40. But since your grace on forrayne coastes Amonge your foes unkinde 90 Must goe to hazard life and limbe, Why should I staye behinde?

  41. And after the late interruption, he declared his readiness to raise a regiment, and to run the hazard of his life and fortune, to reduce the army to the Parliament’s obedience; and received a Commission to that end.

  42. In the last years of the reign of the Confessor (the exact date is unknown) the hazard of fortune placed his rival, Harold, in his power for the time being, and he made excellent use of the opportunity.

  43. She was, moreover, far advanced in pregnancy, and yet had run every hazard to bring him such tidings.


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