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1707 Muses Mercury May 123 A Man's Reputation is in risk of losing more after his Play is acted, than he got before by it.

1796 W. Hutchinson Spirit of Masonry (ed. 2) 327 The reputation of the whole fraternity would be at risk by irregularity on this occasion.

1849 J. L. H. McCracken Earning Living ii. ii. 16 O.H. The education of her son, and his first start in life, depend in a manner on this fund. G. Two things she ought not to put at risk.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. v. viii. 426 Conveyed..at great risk of breakage and pilferage.

1901 ‘L. Malet’ Counsel of Perfection xi. 243 Whether the capital owned by his better nature was not in risk of being exhausted—whether the drafts made on it might not eventually be dishonoured.

1937 O. St. J. Gogarty As I was going down Sackville St. 191 Hundreds of Irishmen..were glad to put their necks in risk of England's halter.

1994 Maclean's 31 Oct. 58/1 Researchers worldwide have raced to identify more of the genes that put individuals at high risk of developing the disease, also known as juvenile diabetes.

2000 Independent on Sunday 5 Mar. i. 11/3 The natterjack toad is particularly at risk, while the pool frog became extinct in 1998.

1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 107/1 Orders have been issued..prohibiting the taking in of any cargoes for the English colonies; and to inform those who do so, that it will be at their own risk.

1798 Roots' Rep. I. 203 If it eventually proves insufficient to raise the sum due, it is the mortgagee's own fault and at his risque.

1852 Amer. Law Reg. 1 21 If a part of the property insured was sold, it ceased thereby to be at the risk of the underwriters.

1887 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 18 65 The expression ‘at ship's risk’ cannot be strictly correct, because the ship has no risk.

1922 Yale Law Jrnl. 32 85 The goods were carried at the owner's risk.

1938 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 12/1 The motorist with a skinful could warn following cars, ‘I've had one too many: pass at your own risk’.

1970 New Society 5 Feb. 209/1 He therefore should be at risk where the car causes damage.

2008 Maryland Gaz. (Nexis) 5 Apr. a2 ‘Vehicles parked illegally and non-permitted vehicles will be towed at the owners' risk and expense,’ the sign reads.

1728 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. VI. 89 They debated whether they should venture to pass the River, at the risk of seeing their Rear-Guard put to rout.

1777 J. Cook Jrnl. (1967) III. i There was no landing at either unless at the risk of having our boats..staved to pieces.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 227 He ran down to the cellar at the risk of breaking his neck.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 150 They have..arrived at a happy positivism as to its structure, though at the risk of bringing it to a no-go.

1928 B.B.C. Handbk. 71/2 At the risk of the programme being called ‘bitty’ by sections of the audience with specially marked and developed tastes—it is necessary to compound the programmes..of diverse elements.

1959 Brno Stud. in Eng. 1 16 At the risk of coining another barbarous neologism one might term it ‘learnability’.

2003 Science 23 May 1246/2 In science as in normal life, there are some clochards who, at the risk of being ridiculed, explore unpopular territories.

1736 Prompter 21 May (single sheet) This Daring, at the Risk of Life, to do himself right for an Injury received.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. v. 61 Ay, at the risk of all our own necks—we could do that without you.

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxx. 291 You thought you could save him at the risk of your health.

1915 F. H. Burnett Lost Prince xxvi. 270 More than once they descended into ravines and, almost at the risk of their lives, clambered and drew themselves..up the other side.

1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed i. 20 These are the men who are planning ‘Defence’ at the risk of peace.

2003 K. E. Hamburger Leadership in Crucible xii. 221 It would appear that Freeman may have questioned orders at the risk of his career.