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tempt fortune





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He loved the game of chance, and it pleased him to tempt fortune by urging pigmies in their hundreds and thousands against each other.

From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole

Again the vessels in which he was preparing to tempt fortune seem preposterously small.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

Still no one appeared willing to tempt fortune.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various

Under the stress of necessity the Admiral resolved to tempt fortune.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus

Not wishing to tempt fortune further for that day, Garibaldi bivouacqued on the field of battle.

From The Liberation of Italy by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn




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