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Definition of Risked
1. risk [v] - See also: risk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Risked
Literary usage of Risked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XXI HOW AGOSTINO PISANO risked HIS HEAD EVEN the squires' table at the
Abbey of St. Andrew's at Bordeaux was on a very sumptuous scale while the ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1887)
"As an experimentalist he risked his own life several times, tasting arsenious
acid, eating an ounce of the root of ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... numbered in its ranks, the hold spirits who had risked the penalties of treason,
by inviting the prince nf orange to rescue their country from ..."
4. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"hopeless cruises, and their merchants sick of a contest in which so much is risked
and nothing gained. The forming a navy is a capital object with us, ..."
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