Example Sentences

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Thus our aims will have been pure and selfless; each one of us here will have risked all for the sake of an unknown.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

At least one hour.—If your disguise is discovered in less time, you will have risked your life in vain.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy by Moses, Montrose Jonas