Perilous

Examples

• He immediately signalled to the cruiser to send water, medicine, and provisions, and another boat made the perilous trip to the Arrow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He has fallen off from neither, said Waldemar Fitzurse; and since it may not better be, I will take on me the conduct of this perilous enterprise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Men made perilous journies to possess themselves of earth's splendid trifles, gems and gold. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He grasped it, then touched the perilous, potent fingers with his lips. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There would be a perilous moment, perhaps: but could she not trust to her beauty to bridge it over, to land her safe in the shelter of his devotion? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I am afraid, I said, that a habit of body such as they have is but a sleepy sort of thing, and rather perilous to health. Plato. The Republic.
• The crisis was perilous; but not without its charm: such as the Indian, perhaps, feels when he slips over the rapid in his canoe. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But their situation was eminently perilous, and was becoming more so with every moment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Another moment, and Mr. Thornton might be smitten down,--he whom she had urged and goaded to come to this perilous place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The cruiser, already tilted at a perilous angle, was carried completely over backward by the impact of my smaller vessel. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Things more perilous, he subjoined. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The perilous ups and downs of life in sixteenth century France were to show that courage in another light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was now in a perilous position, one from which but few generals could have extricated themselves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The neighbours could tell me little, till I lighted on a poor woman who acted as nurse in these perilous times. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And yet you rescued me from a strange and perilous situation; you have benevolently restored me to life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The return voyage promised to be more perilous then the outgoing one. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It had merely enjoyed the delights of anxious anticipation, and the perilous pleasure of backing Edison's experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There are very few harmless circumstances that would not seem full of perilous meaning, so considered. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That perilous passion--an agony ever in some of its phases; with many, an agony throughout--is believed to be an unqualified good. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The fame of it seemed to have reached him, in some of those perilous Indian places where his wanderings had lain. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was perilous work to run for long in the darkness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A perilous solitude, for it lasted long enough to enervate, not long enough to fortify me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• By the 16th of April Porter was ready to start on his perilous trip. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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