All 17 Uses
peril
in
The Thundering Herd
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- He was about to face the perils of the frontier, and serious and thoughtful as he endeavored to make himself, he could not repress an eager, wild response.†
Chpt 2perils = dangers
- Not to think of its peril!†
Chpt 3peril = danger
- Leaping up, he broke out of the woods, yelling like an Indian, and charged down the gentle slope, exultant and proud, yet not quite frenzied enough to forget possible peril.†
Chpt 4
- As she stole away under the trees she heard the high beat of her heart and felt the cold prickle of her skin; yet in the very peril of the moment—for Jett surely would do her harm if he caught her—there was an elation at her daring and her revolt against his rule.†
Chpt 7
- Tom, strange to realize, took the incident with a degree of calmness that seemed to him to be an acceptance of times grown heroic and perilous.†
Chpt 10perilous = dangerous
- Therefore buffalo-hunters not affiliated with the war movement, or camping in isolated places unknown to the organizers, stood in great peril of their lives.†
Chpt 11peril = danger
- Near the southern end of this strange steppe was a belt of glistening white sand dunes, many miles wide, impassable for a horse, and extremely perilous for a man.†
Chpt 12perilous = dangerous
- Just ahead of him lay the unknown ground never seen by him or any of his white comrades, and it held, no one knew how close, a peril soon to be encountered.†
Chpt 12peril = danger
- They all reserved their fire, manifestly directing attention to his new and hidden peril.†
Chpt 12
- And the fight went on, narrowing down as to distance, intensifying as to spirit, magnifying peril to both sides.†
Chpt 12
- She realized her peril, yet did not despair.†
Chpt 14
- Her intelligence told her that she was now in greater peril of death than at any time heretofore, yet, though her hair rose stiff and her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth, she could not feel the same as when Pruitt had parceled her, share and share with Follonsbee, or when those lean wild-riding Comanches had been swooping down on her.†
Chpt 15
- Her peril at one time had been great, but if this herd had caught her in a stampede she would have been lost.†
Chpt 15 *
- Yet was it as perilous as when she was practically a prisoner in Jett's outfit.†
Chpt 15perilous = dangerous
- Milly Fayre's dark haunting eyes crossed his memory, a stabbing, regretful pain; and for her he would have embraced any peril.†
Chpt 16peril = danger
- Sooner or later Tom was forced to realize in his own reactions the fact that the fighting and the peril had increased to an alarming extent.†
Chpt 16
- Peril was not over, but safety was in sight.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)