hazard of the die
Example Sentences
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Clothing, wife, family and sometimes the personal liberty of the player himself rested in the hazard of the die.
From Indian Games : an historical research by Davis, Andrew McFarland
"Each had set his life upon a cast, and was ready to stand the hazard of the die."
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
I have set my happiness on another cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
But he had dared the hazard of the die, and sat his horse in grim silence while his foul treachery was thus made known to the court.
From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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)
