All 11 Uses
peril
in
The Light of Western Stars
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- Madeline tried to smile to assure him she was alive and well; but the intent in his eyes, the power of his controlled spirit telling her of her peril and his, froze the smile on her lips.†
Chpt 11peril = danger
- She had heard many stories of this man's cool indifference to peril and death.†
Chpt 11
- I don't believe I—Stewart, isn't there something more you could tell me—why you think, why you know my own personal liberty is in peril?†
Chpt 14
- You're so wild, so daring, you'd rush right into peril.†
Chpt 14
- I knowed I was in some peril then.†
Chpt 17
- Madeline had to believe that a hard and perilous life in a barren and wild country developed great principles in men.†
Chpt 18 *perilous = dangerous
- Left alone with these three men, now stripped of all pretense, she realized how fortune had favored her and what peril still hung in the balance.†
Chpt 19peril = danger
- Likewise the stirring of her blood, always susceptible to the spirit and motion of a ride, let alone one of peril, now began to throb and burn away the worry, the dread, the coldness that had weighted her down.†
Chpt 19
- It would have been natural for him to give his life in their defense if peril menaced them.†
Chpt 22
- A mistake on Link's part, a slip of a wheel, a bursting of a tire at a critical moment, an instant of the bad luck which might happen a hundred times on a less perilous ride—any one of these might spell disaster for the car, perhaps death to the occupants.†
Chpt 24perilous = dangerous
- That fact gave him the superhuman nerve to face the peril of this ride.†
Chpt 24peril = danger
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)