All 8 Uses

peril
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Sea Wolf
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And before the wind we were, and leaping, when Johnson, easing his sheet at imminent peril, cut across our wake a hundred feet away.†
Chpt 19

peril = danger
The present, with all its perils and anxieties, rushed upon me with stunning force.†
Chpt 20

perils = dangers
It was a perilous undertaking, for, at a height of over a hundred feet from the deck, holding on by their hands, they were not in the best of positions to protect themselves from Mugridge's feet.†
Chpt 21

perilous = dangerous
I know my position is perilous, and I may say frankly that yours is even more perilous.†
Chpt 22
I know my position is perilous, and I may say frankly that yours is even more perilous.†
Chpt 22
The hunting was perilous; yet the boats, lowered day after day, were swallowed up in the grey obscurity, and were seen no more till nightfall, and often not till long after, when they would creep in like sea-wraiths, one by one, out of the grey.†
Chpt 23
She finished the concluding stanza without faltering and then slowly guided the conversation into less perilous channels.†
Chpt 26 *
But it was not till the third day that we found them, all of them, the shears included, and, of all perilous places, in the pounding surf of the grim south-western promontory.†
Chpt 36

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