Last night she risked her life climbing down a precipitous cliff in total darkness in an effort to save Billy Langstrom.
I risked everything to get to this point.
He had risked his own life to protect her from the wild dogs, and chased the man who smashed her windshield.
An ordinary commander would have avoided fighting altogether, but Marlborough saw beyond the material conditions and risked all on his estimate of the moral superiority of his army and of the weakness of the French leading.
Quite ignorant as to the real state of affairs, he raised the money and sent a nuncio, who never risked himself in Scotland, but made the extraordinary proposal later, that Mary should execute or at least " discourt " her chief advisers.