Both Uses
peril
in
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
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- "Before you drink, my respectable old friends," said he, "it would be well that, with the experience of a lifetime to direct you, you should draw up a few general rules for your guidance, in passing a second time through the perils of youth.†
perils = dangers
- Now he rattled forth full-throated sentences about patriotism, national glory, and the people's right; now he muttered some perilous stuff or other, in a sly and doubtful whisper, so cautiously that even his own conscience could scarcely catch the secret; and now, again, he spoke in measured accents, and a deeply deferential tone, as if a royal ear were listening to his wellturned periods.†
*perilous = dangerous
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)