"Sporting chance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that they should make up a party to go and see M. Feriaud. Frank's was one of those generous, unspoiled natures which never grow blase at the sight of a fellow human taking a sporting chance at hara-kiri. He was a well-known figure at every wild animal exhibition within a radius of fifty miles, and M. Feriaud drew him like ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
... the court was loud with shouts and laughter. Everyone had something to do. There was the luggage to fetch from the day-room. The town porter, known generally as Slimy Tim, was waiting to be tipped. Health certificates had to be produced. There was a sporting chance of finding in Merriman's second-hand bookshop—out of bounds during term-time—an English version of Vergil and Xenophon. There were a hundred things to do for everyone except Gordon. There were several other new boys, doubtless, to be found ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
... the faintest notion whether governesses dined with the family or came in afterward with the coffee; but it was a sporting chance, and I ...
— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck |
