hazard of the die

Example Sentences

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There is no waiting game to be played in love—one must be ready to take the hazard of the die at any moment.

From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot

Thus acting, thou puttest all to the hazard of the die.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

He had no right to stand the hazard of the die, and then refuse to abide by the result.

From Daniel Webster by Lodge, Henry Cabot

But that chance has a sugarcoating; it is swathed in egoistic illusion; it shows less stark and intolerable chanciness, so to speak, than the bald hazard of the die.

From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

But, like King Richard, he had "set his fate upon a cast," and he "would stand the hazard of the die."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various