All 8 Uses
peril
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
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- Here was the unknown and the perilous.†
Chpt 2perilous = dangerous
- And as it somehow reminded him of his prospect in life, so it suddenly resembled the woman near him, only in her there were greater beauty and peril, a mystery more unsolvable, and something nameless that numbed his heart and dimmed his eye.†
Chpt 2peril = danger
- It was a trail on which there could be no stops, and, therefore, if perilous, it was at least one that did not take long in the descent.†
Chpt 4perilous = dangerous
- Venters surmised this much of the change in him—idleness had passed; keen, fierce vigor flooded his mind and body; all that had happened to him at Cottonwoods seemed remote and hard to recall; the difficulties and perils of the present absorbed him, held him in a kind of spell.†
Chpt 9perils = dangers
- But until their arrival and the necessity for his trip to the village he sequestered in a far corner of mind all thought of peril, of his past life, and almost that of the present.†
Chpt 13peril = danger
- And if he should ever succeed in getting Bess safely away from these immediate perils, he feared the sharp eyes of women and their tongues, the big outside world with its problems of existence.†
Chpt 14perils = dangers
- No, Jane reflected, it was not charm; only a wonderful training of eye and ear, and sense of impending peril.†
Chpt 15 *peril = danger
- Then they would strike the long and perilous trail to ride out of Utah.†
Chpt 17perilous = dangerous
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)