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Hazardry   Listen
noun
Hazardry  n.  
1.
Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. (R.)
2.
Rashness; temerity. (R.)





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"Hazardry" Quotes from Famous Books



... indecision, the contrast between the tangible earth and the bodyless ghosts, and endless repetition of the cry, "Why find we us here?" and of the question "Has some Vast Imbecility framed us in jest, and left us now to hazardry?"—all start from the overwhelming love of physical life and acquaintance with its possibilities, which Mr. Hardy ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... never again . . . Now glares my moody meaning on you, friend? - That when you talk of offspring as sheer joy So trustingly, you blink contingencies. Fors Fortuna! He who goes fathering Gives frightful hostages to hazardry!" ...
— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy


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