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
We’ll go pretty close, so as not to run the chance of missing.
From The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger by Graydon, William Murray
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 Murfree, Mary Noailles
They were small landed proprietors or lairds, who had squandered their patrimony in idleness and dissipation, and were willing to run the chance of retrieving their ruined fortunes at any risk.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
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
