All 5 Uses
peril
in
Treasure Island
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- I felt willing rather to starve at sea than to confront such perils.†
Chpt 24perils = dangers
- Even then I was still so much interested, waiting for the ship to touch, that I had quite forgot the peril that hung over my head and stood craning over the starboard bulwarks and watching the ripples spreading wide before the bows.†
Chpt 26peril = danger
- I clung with both hands till my nails ached, and I shut my eyes as if to cover up the peril.†
Chpt 27
- It was long ere I could close an eye, and heaven knows I had matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon—keeping the mutineers together with one hand and grasping with the other after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.†
Chpt 29perilous = dangerous
- He himself slept peacefully and snored aloud, yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed and the shameful gibbet that awaited him.†
Chpt 29 *perils = dangers
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)