Peril

Examples

• Don't talk like that with him in peril. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Restrain him,' cried Mr. Snodgrass; 'Winkle, Tupman--he must not peril his distinguished life in such a cause as this. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You, sir, as a clergyman, said he, may feel it disagreeable to be present amidst scenes of hurry and flurry, and, I may say, peril. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What peril she has come through! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I stand in no kind of peril, and I can by possibility be hurt at no one's hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am in deadly peril always, for these spasms are sudden and irregular, and of course I cannot tell when to be getting out of the way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• At your peril you advertise! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This magnificent indifference to placing his safety in peril for the second time, revived the flagging interest of the worshippers in the hero. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What were a few long hours added to the hardships of some over-taxed brutes when weighed against the peril of those human souls? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She had saved his body, he said, and he was confident she did not mean to peril his soul. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He then folded the quittance, and put it under his cap, adding,--Peril of thy beard, Jew, see that this be full and ample! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• 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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