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a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1535) i. xxxviii. f. 68^v A man that marieth a faire wife, casteth his good fame at hasard.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 181 Selling al at hazard.

1640 O. Sedgwick Christs Counsell 24 He did let and suffer his spirituall estate to run on at hazards.

a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 10 Some choose, and some at Hazzard seize their Mate.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rhapsodomancy, an antient Kind of Divination performed by pitching on a Passage of a Poet at hazard, and reckoning on it as a Prediction of what was to befall.

1775 T. Pownall Mem. Navigation & Drainage 3 The whole expence, the interest, the safety of the country is put at hazard, and the effect left to chance.

1808 J. Moore Let. 13 Nov. in F. L. Clarke Life Wellington (1814) 248 The moment is a critical one..—but I have pushed into Spain at hazards;—this was the order of my government.

1828 A. Bules tr. A.-J.-M.-R. Savary Mem. Duke of Rovigo III. ii. xxi. 153 Your allies..have left you no other alternative but that of treating without loss of time; treating at their expense, and at hazards.

1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 2 The two following examples, taken at hazard.

1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxi. 327 Where their worldly interests were at hazard.

1940 C. Morgan Voyage 504 ‘Where do you want to go to?’ ‘Down-river,’ Thérèse replied at hazard. ‘La Roche perhaps.’

1994 C. McCarthy Crossing ii. 151 The priest wagered nothing. He'd nothing at hazard.

2005 Jrnl. Transport Econ. & Policy 39 318 Restraints on trade can help to safeguard the integrity of transactions when firm-specific investments are at hazard.