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

As I went through Leicester Square lately I was going to call and buy you some, but not knowing but you might have some I would not run the chance of buying duplicates.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

You kept your word and disgraced me once, if I don't know how you did it; but I won't run the chance of that again!

From The La Chance Mine Mystery by Gage, George W.

One thing is certain, we must not let our May run the chance of being spoken to again by this young fellow.

From Won from the Waves by Greene, John B.

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