All 8 Uses
peril
in
Oedipus King of Thebes (translated by: Murray)
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- Up, O chief Of men, and lift thy city from its grief; Face thine own peril!†
Chpt Playperil = danger
- There is peril found in thee and hate.†
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- And stir not to such stress Of peril griefs that are but nothingness.†
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- [They wonder if these sins be all due to pride and if CREON has guilty ambitions; 'Tis Pride that breeds the tyrant; drunken deep With perilous things is she, Which bring not peace: up, reeling, steep on steep She climbs, till lo, the rock-edge, and the leap To that which needs must be, The land where the strong foot is no more strong†
Chpt Playperilous = dangerous
- Was I in some suffering Or peril?†
Chpt Playperil = danger
- From thee in great peril fell peace upon my heart, In thee mine eye clouded and the dark is come apace.†
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- Found not the way to his father's blood, nor shaken The world's scorn on his mother, The child and the groom withal; But now, of murderers born, of God forsaken, Mine own sons' brother; All this, and if aught can fall Upon man more perilous And elder in sin, lo, all Is the portion of Oedipus.†
Chpt Playperilous = dangerous
- And, children, when ye reach the years of love, Who shall dare wed you, whose heart rise above The peril, to take on him all the shame That cleaves to my name and my children's name?†
Chpt Playperil = danger
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)