All 10 Uses
peril
in
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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- The stair had been carried no higher; to set a stranger mounting it in the darkness was to send him straight to his death; and (although, thanks to the lightning and my own precautions, I was safe enough) the mere thought of the peril in which I might have stood, and the dreadful height I might have fallen from, brought out the sweat upon my body and relaxed my joints.†
Chpt 4peril = danger
- I asked him what trade could be so dreadful as the one he followed, where he ran the continual peril of his life, not alone from wind and sea, but by the horrid cruelty of those who were his masters.†
Chpt 5
- At that period (so soon after the forty-five) there were many exiled gentlemen coming back at the peril of their lives, either to see their friends or to collect a little money; and as for the Highland chiefs that had been forfeited, it was a common matter of talk how their tenants would stint themselves to send them money, and their clansmen outface the soldiery to get it in, and run the gauntlet of our great navy to carry it across.†
Chpt 9
- The brightness of the night showed us these perils as clearly as by day, which was, perhaps, the more alarming.†
Chpt 13 *perils = dangers
- There was no sound of man or cattle; not a cock crew, though it was about the hour of their first waking; only the surf broke outside in the distance, which put me in mind of my perils and those of my friend.†
Chpt 14
- Indeed, it is one thing to stand the danger of your life, and quite another to run the peril of both life and character.†
Chpt 17peril = danger
- I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me.†
Chpt 20
- But then Alan, with less than five guineas, had to get as far as France; I, with my less than two, not beyond Queensferry; so that taking things in their proportion, Alan's society was not only a peril to my life, but a burden on my purse.†
Chpt 21
- "Well," said I, "it's to his door that I am bound, so you may judge by that if I am an ill-doer; and I will tell you more, that though I am indeed, by a dreadful error, in some peril of my life, King George has no truer friend in all Scotland than myself."†
Chpt 26
- All these, and the brig herself, I had outlived; and come through these hardships and fearful perils without scath.†
Chpt 28perils = dangers
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)