All 12 Uses
peril
in
The Heritage of the Desert
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- What are our toils and perils compared to theirs?†
Chpt 1perils = dangers
- Not once did he glance backward over the trail on which peril was fast approaching.†
Chpt 1peril = danger
- The wildness of it all, the necessity of peril and calm acceptance of it, stirred within Hare the call, the awakening, the spirit of the desert.†
Chpt 4
- Hare was glad to see the lambs scramble back bleating for their mothers, and to note that, though peril threatened at every steep turn, the steady down-flow always made space for the sheep behind.†
Chpt 9
- He looked up at a wild black cliff, mountain-high, with its windworn star of blue; he felt himself on the threshold of the desert, with that subtle mystery waiting; he knew himself to be close to strenuous action on the ranges, companion of these sombre Mormons, exposed to their peril, making their cause his cause, their life his life.†
Chpt 9
- Climbing was arduous enough, yet the hardest and most perilous toil began when a wild steer was cornered.†
Chpt 10 *perilous = dangerous
- The long months which seemed years since he had seen her, the change in him wrought by labor and peril, the deepening friendship between him and Dave, even the love he bore Silvermane—these, instead of making dim the memory of the dark-eyed girl, only made him tenderer in his thought of her.†
Chpt 10peril = danger
- Down and down, step by step, cracking the stones with iron-shod hoofs, the gray stallion worked his perilous way, sure-footed as a mountain-sheep.†
Chpt 15perilous = dangerous
- Hare knew how her story had slighted the perils and privations of that long year.†
Chpt 16perils = dangers
- She made so pretty a picture and appeared so little affected by the peril they had just passed through that Hare, yielding to a tender rush of pride and possession, kissed the pink cheeks till they flamed.†
Chpt 16peril = danger
- It was a perilous ride down that red slope, not so much from the hissing bullets as from the washes and gullies which Silvermane sailed over in magnificent leaps.†
Chpt 17perilous = dangerous
- Holderness and his rustlers, all except the gloomy Naab, were blind to the peril that lay beyond the divide.†
Chpt 19peril = danger
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)