Perils

Examples

• What little there was must at any rate be husbanded to the utmost; she could not trust herself again to the perils of a sleepless night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There were no beaten paths, and the way was beset with unknown perils; there was no experience to guide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And yet this John Openshaw seems to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Sholtos. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I saw and felt London at last: I got into the Strand; I went up Cornhill; I mixed with the life passing along; I dared the perils of crossings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In this instance, when the inventor was largely his own financier, the difficulties and perils were redoubled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Then he had been tried by prosperity as well as adverse fortune, and had passed unhurt through the perils of both. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Among many activities he invented the safety-lamp, the object of which was to protect miners from the perils of exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Exile to Bermuda with other insurgents was not so attractive as the perils of a flight to the United States. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Fire also had its perils. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• My first impulse was that we should all return to Versailles, there to assist in extricating our chief from his perils. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But have you, I asked, formed any definite conception as to what these perils are? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Or when they are on a voyage, amid the perils of the sea? Plato. The Republic.

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