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

It was evidently better to bivouac in the open than to run the chance of so crushing a punishment.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

Of course, though, had the Germans opened fire on the professor from their trenches, they would have run the chance of killing their own three men, captives though the latter were.

From Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam by Young, Clarence

“If I don’t do that I may run the chance of not having the sides even,” answered Dick.

From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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