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1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) i. 91 Allured..to runne a bold hazard with him to the gates of Death.

1644 J. Goodwin Θεομαχια 25 How they, who shall compell men..to..run the hazard of losing a subsistence in that which is to come, will answer it..is above my apprehension.

1695 Case Reginald Tucker (single sheet) He purchased a defeazable Title, and must run the same Hazard as the Purchaser of a mortgaged Estate does.

1729 Eccho (Edinb.) 4 June 3/2 We are extremely apprehensive, our India Company's Ships..will run a very great Hazard, in doubling the Cape of Good Hope.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 368 They would have run such hazards getting home!

1826 R. Sharp Diary 15 Dec. (1997) 91 I never interfere with Salting, so I forgo all claim to the excellent qualities of the Bacon when cured, but then I run no hazard of it not being good.

1853 Harper's Mag. July 210/1 The lake at the time was in the possession of the British fleet,..and Perry ran great hazard in encountering it before he could reach Presque Isle.

1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 8 With fancy he ran no hazard: Fact might knock him o'er the mazard.

1936 Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 17 June 3827/2 If they had to make trips from the landing point in France to the base line of action, they ran a hazard; they ran the hazard of shell fire, and the hazard of bombs from aeroplanes.

2008 Y. Siddiqi Anxieties of Empire 32 The spy runs the hazard of discovery.