Endangering

Examples

• Formerly the bobbins on which the yarns were wound increased in speed as they were filled, thus endangering and often breaking the thread, and at all times increasing the tension. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Major was twirling them round by the little chain from which they sometimes hung to their lady's waist, and was thereby endangering his own eye. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The defenders of the works could not have fired upon us without endangering their own men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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