All 5 Uses
peril
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
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- THE PICKPOCKET: His life is in peril.†
Act 1peril = danger
- CYRANO (rising): This Silenus, Big-bellied, coarse, still deems himself a peril— A danger to the love of lovely ladies, And, while he sputters out his actor's part, Makes sheep's eyes at their boxes—goggling frog!†
Act 1
- It happened thus: While caracoling to recall the troops For the third charge, a band of fugitives Bore me with them, close by the hostile ranks: I was in peril—capture, sudden death!†
Act 4
- DE GUICHE: I leave no woman in peril.†
Act 4
- CHRISTIAN (taking her hands): Now tell me why— Why, by these fearful paths so perilous— Across these ranks of ribald soldiery, You have come?†
Act 4 *perilous = dangerous
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)