All 6 Uses
peril
in
Lost Horizon
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- His tiredness was of a kind that no amount of possible peril could stave off.†
Chpt 1peril = danger
- Twelve years earlier he had grown to hate the perils of trench warfare in France, and had several times avoided death by declining to attempt valorous impossibilities.†
Chpt 1perils = dangers
- He was uneasy now beyond his continuing mental curiosity, for he was aware that the whole situation had ceased to be excitingly perilous and was threatening to become a trial of endurance ending in catastrophe.†
Chpt 2perilous = dangerous
- Conway felt again, as he gazed up at the stupendous mountain wall, that there was a superb and exquisite peril in the scene; but for some chance-placed barrier, the whole valley would clearly have been a lake, nourished continually from the glacial heights around it.†
Chpt 6peril = danger
- At intervals it was his custom to send reports to the Bishop of Pekin; but often they never reached him, and as it was to be presumed that the bearers had succumbed to the perils of the journey, Perrault grew more and more unwilling to hazard their lives, and after about the middle of the century he gave up the practice.†
Chpt 7perils = dangers
- And he knew, too, that his mind dwelt in a world of its own, Shangri-La in microcosm, and that this world also was in peril.†
Chpt 11 *peril = danger
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)