| 1. | Things are getting desperate, and it is at least a chance, though a hazardous one. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | "That is saying too much such hazardous affirmations are a proof of the excitement under which you labour.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | Bankruptcies are most frequent in the most hazardous trades. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 4. | Diomed undertakes this hazardous enterprise, and makes choice of Ulysses for his companion. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | "That seems to me as hazardous as uncertain, and convinces me that my scheme is far better than yours.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | Merchants engaged in the hazardous projects of trade, all tremble at the thoughts of being obliged, at all times, to expose the real state of their circumstances. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | The most hazardous of all trades, that of a smuggler, though, when the adventure succeeds, it is likewise the most profitable, is the infallible road to bankruptcy. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart inhabits her hazardous nose you tremble every instant lest she should blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her mouth. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | "It is long since we have had a good dinner and I, for my part, have a somewhat hazardous expedition for this evening, and shall not be sorry, I confess, to fortify myself with a few glasses of good old Burgundy.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |