All 16 Uses
peril
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- Finally I was carried off in one direction, and my perilous clothes in another.†
Chpt 4perilous = dangerous
- Oh, prithee delay not; to delay at such a time were to double and treble the perils that already compass thee about.†
Chpt 5 *perils = dangers
- The king said: "Be merciful, fair sir, and essay no further in this perilous matter, lest disaster follow.†
Chpt 6perilous = dangerous
- —peril of life is toward!†
Chpt 14peril = danger
- —but it were peril to my own soul to let him die unconfessed and unabsolved.†
Chpt 17
- He shuddered at the thought—the thought of the peril of it to the well—but he said with feeling: "One needs not to ask that of a poor body who has not known that blessed refreshment sith that he was a boy.†
Chpt 24
- Whereas, failing in her first duty, she hath by that failure failed in all; for whoso, clinging to a rope, severeth it above his hands, must fall; it being no defense to claim that the rest of the rope is sound, neither any deliverance from his peril, as he shall find.†
Chpt 25
- Finally the king said: "When ye know that I meditate a thing inconvenient, or that hath a peril in it, why do you not warn me to cease from that project?"†
Chpt 27
- The king broke in: "Sell us the house and take yourselves away, for we be perilous company, being late come from people that died of the Spotted Death."†
Chpt 30perilous = dangerous
- He looked up and down the road to see that no one was coming, and then said in a cautious voice: "From what land come you, brother, that you speak such perilous words, and seem not to be afraid?"†
Chpt 30
- They are not perilous words when spoken to one of my own caste, I take it.†
Chpt 30
- I helped to hang my neighbors for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of zeal in the master's cause; the others helped for none other reason.†
Chpt 30peril = danger
- Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil—" Oh, I tell you it was a smasher!†
Chpt 33
- My lord's chief attendant sauntered forward at that moment with indolent grace, and said: "Ye have said ye should continue upon this road, which is our direction likewise; wherefore my lord, the earl Grip, hath given commandment that ye retain the horses and ride, and that certain of us ride with ye a twenty mile to a fair town that hight Cambenet, whenso ye shall be out of peril."†
Chpt 34
- I had been ordered to cross to the city in all haste and bring the best physician; I was doing my best; naturally I was running with all my might; the night was dark, I ran against this common person here, who seized me by the throat and began to pummel me, although I told him my errand, and implored him, for the sake of the great earl my master's mortal peril— The common person interrupted and said it was a lie; and was going to explain how I rushed upon him and attacked him without a word— "Silence, sirrah!" from the court.†
Chpt 37
- Sir Launcelot, in his richest armor, came striding along the great hall now on his way to the stock-board; he was president of the stock-board, and occupied the Siege Perilous, which he had bought of Sir Galahad; for the stock-board consisted of the Knights of the Round Table, and they used the Round Table for business purposes now.†
Chpt 40perilous = dangerous
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)