All 18 Uses
peril
in
Dune
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- Yet, Hawat had said, this appearance contained the deadliest peril, for the Duke Leto was popular among the Great Houses of the Landsraad.†
Book 1peril = danger
- Arrakis has many costly perils.†
Book 1perils = dangers
- Lasguns would knock them down, but lasguns were expensive and notoriously cranky of maintenance—and there was always the peril of explosive pyrotechnics if the laser beam intersected a hot shield.†
Book 1peril = danger
- So much peril here!†
Book 1
- =========================== It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils of Arrakis, that he walked heedlessly into the pit.†
Book 1perils = dangers
- The perils of the—" He broke off, leaned forward.†
Book 1
- He knew the peril within this fact more certainly than any other Fremen.†
Book 2peril = danger
- Beginnings are times of such great peril.†
Book 2
- And she found in herself a sense of pity for Jamis—an emotion tempered by awareness of the immediate peril to her son.†
Book 2
- For Paul, she knew, she should take that spout and drink of the sack's contents, but as she bent to the proffered spout, her senses told her its peril.†
Book 2
- Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection.†
Book 3
- They knew the peril he faced this day.†
Book 3
- No line of the future he had ever seen carried that moment, of peril from Gurney Halleck.†
Book 3
- Thus she knows Paul is alive and knows there is peril, all in the same word.†
Book 3
- But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril.†
Book 3 *
- The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes.†
Book 3
- The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives.†
Book 3
- Because the Fremen lived so long in peril, the term came by general usage to designate any cave warren inhabited by one of their tribal communities.†
Book Term
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)