All 8 Uses of
peril
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest.†
Chpt 1.5peril = danger
- As he was, when I first saw him after they found me and demanded to know if I would take him, and, at my peril be discreet—as he was then, so he is now.†
Chpt 1.5
- Had he stood in peril of a less horrible sentence—had there been a chance of any one of its savage details being spared—by just so much would he have lost in his fascination.†
Chpt 2.2
- Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused.†
Chpt 2.2
- It carried me into great and unexpected peril; but it is a sacred object, and if it had carried me to death I hope it would have sustained me.†
Chpt 2.9
- The truth is, my dear Charles," Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and lowered his voice, "you can have no conception of the difficulty with which our business is transacted, and of the peril in which our books and papers over yonder are involved.†
Chpt 2.24
- The peril of an old servant and a good one, whose only crime was fidelity to himself and his family, stared him so reproachfully in the face, that, as he walked to and fro in the Temple considering what to do, he almost hid his face from the passersby.†
Chpt 2.24
- That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now.†
Chpt 3.1 *perils = dangers