resks

If he ain't all right, we've got to find it out, but we're in too deep to run resks of gettin 'him mad 'fore we know for sure.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I would a'got trough all right, but I seen her, -- the pretty lady, -- your girl, -- standing in the aisle right ahin 'the c'ndct'r, jes' es I wuz pullin 'the trigger knowed her right off,' ith her eyes shinin 'like two stars; an' I couldn't run no resks.

Lo, Michael! Grace Livingston Hill 1906

"The resks in life come along fast enough, without runnin 'to meet 'em," continued the old man.

Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Well, I don 'des call hit bettin'; but I resks a little w'en I t'inks I kin he'p de cause.

The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

Still, they're good, zealous dogs; an 'as they're going to go for'ard an' take most of the resks of that panther, it seems invidious to criticize 'em.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

-- "Settlin '" the blame 'things when they wuz a-swarmin'; and a-robbin 'hives, and all sich fool-resks.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

Still, they're good, zealous dogs; an 'as they're going to go for'ard an' take most of the resks of that panther, it seems invidious to criticise 'em.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

As it's only a slow day's march an 'as these Mexicans knows the country like a coyote, it's a cinch the girl meets no harm an' runs no resks.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

We-all don't want to incur no resks by abandonin 'ourse'fs to real shore-enough law.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

I sends in my young men; but for myse'f I sort o 'hungers about the suburbs of the racket, takin' no resks an 'on the prowl for a cinch, -- some sech pick-up as a sleeper, mebby.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885