All 9 Uses
peril
in
The Man of the Forest
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- He, perhaps, was the keenest of the brothers and the one to whom adventure and peril called most.†
Chpt 3peril = danger
- She divined that some peril menaced her.†
Chpt 5
- It did not spring from the fact that he was brave and kind to help a young woman in peril, or that he appeared deft and quick at camp-fire chores.†
Chpt 7
- He realized his peril.†
Chpt 11
- Dale would soon overhaul Bo and come between her and peril.†
Chpt 12
- After more days of riding the grassy level of that wonderfully gold and purple park, and dreamily listening by day to the ever-low and ever-changing murmur of the waterfall, and by night to the wild, lonely mourn of a hunting wolf, and climbing to the dizzy heights where the wind stung sweetly, Helen Rayner lost track of time and forgot her peril.†
Chpt 13
- As Helen Rayner watched Dale ride away on a quest perilous to him, and which meant almost life or death for her, it was surpassing strange that she could think of nothing except the thrilling, tumultuous moment when she had put her arms round his neck.†
Chpt 24perilous = dangerous
- The moment came when Helen's quivering began to subside, when her blood quieted to let her reason sway, when she began to do battle with her rage, and slowly to take fearful stock of this consuming peril that had been a sleeping tigress in her veins.†
Chpt 24peril = danger
- This significant speech thrilled Helen with its assurance of hope, and made her blood curdle at the implied peril awaiting the hunter.†
Chpt 24 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)