Meanings of tempt fortune in английском

We will take half each, and you can hoard whilst I tempt fortune.

We all wish to travel, do business, tempt fortune, brave dangers.

Merchants, clergymen, women, professional men, clerks, come here to tempt fortune.

But it does not do to tempt fortune too far.

You have now but a few hours to tempt fortune.

What a green cloth, on which to boldly tempt fortune!

Talbot again entreated me not to tempt fortune foolishly.

But take my advice, Tartlet, and in the common interest do not tempt fortune twice!

He wanted to go to Paris and tempt fortune in some gambling houses that abounded there.

Why, in short, should he tempt fortune?

No, my son, we have been permitted to meet this once, but we must not tempt fortune again.

But, finding none which they deemed suitable, they decided to tempt fortune at Poutrincourt's domain of Port Royal.

An ordinary Oriental would have been content with such a result, and have declined to tempt fortune any more.

He joined this party and returned to Santa Fé, in order again to tempt fortune for an opportunity to reach the Rocky Mountains.

At these informal camp dinners men and women left the table together; only habitual card-players remaining behind to tempt fortune until the small hours.

All agreed, that it was better to stay behind a strong stone wall, protected by cannon, than to tempt fortune in the open field.