Dangers

Examples

• Mr. Carruthers has got a trap, and so the dangers of the lonely road, if there ever were any dangers, are now over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I mean for dangers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The emphasis in school upon this particular tool has, however, its dangers--dangers which are not theoretical but exhibited in practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• No dangers, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is one thing to have been engaged in war, to have shared its dangers and hardships; it is another thing to hear or read about it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The world has been roused--for a time at least--to great dangers and great desires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the cause of friendship,' he fervently exclaimed, 'I would brave all dangers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• After your dangers of last night, you must be quite worn out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Through all such dangers, however, it was triumphantly brought, inch by inch, and arrived at its journey's end in fine condition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And even should they escape that fate was it not but to be faced with far graver dangers? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I shewed her the dangers which her children incurred during her absence; and she at length agreed not to go beyond the inclosure of the forest. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We had performed the miraculous and come through a thousand dangers unscathed--we had escaped from the land of the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But there are conspicuous dangers attendant upon the transition from indirect to formal education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Or if I escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a miserable death of cold and hunger? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His dangers being over, she sang Te Deum. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It will, indeed, after such an absence; an absence not only long, but including so many dangers. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In this one little was said of the hardships endured, the dangers faced, or the homesickness conquered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This Lex Valeria was the Habeas Corpus of Rome, and it freed the Roman plebeians from the worst dangers of class vindictiveness in the law courts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These pages are not the record of my wanderings and my dangers away from home. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That he had fallen among far greater dangers than those which had developed themselves when he left England, he of course knew now. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• If a separation of two months should not have cooled him, there were dangers and evils before her:caution for him and for herself would be necessary. Jane Austen. Emma.
• From here on for four miles to the outer ramparts our way will be beset by countless dangers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But what of Alice, and that other little life so soon to be launched amidst the hardships and grave dangers of a primeval world? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Editor: Zeke