1 If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 2 It shows that the man we are after is not as lonely as I imagined he was, but has friends who are ready to risk something for him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 3 The risk she had run acting in the open air was justified.
4 Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habitation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, without the risk of being plundered and burnt before the next morning.
5 Nay, but Isaac, thou knowest not all the risk.
6 "Trust me, I will requite the risk you run for my love, Gurth," said the Knight.
7 They remonstrated also upon the risk of damage to their horses by these forced marches.
8 This accomplished, the loyal Cedric hastened in quest of his friend Athelstane, determined, at every risk to himself, to save that last scion of Saxon royalty.
9 Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire.
10 I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me.
11 When they came to the top of the rise he stopped; he would not risk the long and very jolty down-slope.
12 I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry.
13 He did not enter into any remonstrance with his other children: he was more willing to believe they felt their error than to run the risk of investigation.
14 In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.
15 You are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship.