"Sporting chance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he echoed with a trace of amusement in his tone. "I wonder how many of you would have listened to me if I'd gone around to you a week ago and asked you to give me a sporting chance?" ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... was a thrust from a different quarter. In the open a man feels a sporting chance, at any rate, even if a bullet can beat him on the run; but cooped up within four walls he is paralyzed by his horrible helplessness. He feels that a military court reverses ordinary procedure, holding that it is better for nine innocent to suffer than for one guilty one to escape. ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams |
