run the chance
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Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground.
From Time Magazine Archive
And perhaps if all matrimonial bargains were to be again distributed, it would be better for you to keep what you have than to run the chance of getting worse.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
“We shall have to make for the nearest port, I fear, after all, or run the chance of starving,” said Adair.
From The Three Midshipmen by Victor Prout
After all," said Horace, "I shouldn't care a straw to run the chance, as far as I am concerned.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
If these fiends," he exclaimed,—the triumph of Oconostota had gone very hard with him,—"were like any other enemy we could afford to run the chance.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
