And so he stakes his well-being on the throw of the dice; the turn of a wheel; or the speed of a horse.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
There was the very real prospect he had rolled the dice one time too many.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
At each change of bearing, you count these, adding the odd numbers to the number of hundreds, ascertained by the dice, to be counted and returned at each change of bearing to the other pocket.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell