All 7 Uses
peril
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- Grandma Nakane, Uncle's mother, was too old then to understand political expediency, race riots, the yellow peril.†
Chpt 4 *peril = danger
- All her life, it seemed to me, Aunt Emily toiled to tell of the lives of the Nisei in Canada in her effort to make familiar, to make knowable, the treacherous yellow peril that lived in the minds of the racially prejudiced.†
Chpt 7
- The steep one-vehicle road dropped at such a perilous and tortuous slope, I turned around the first chance I could get.†
Chpt 16perilous = dangerous
- Yellow like the yellow pawns in the Yellow Peril game.†
Chpt 22peril = danger
- The Yellow Peril is a Somerville Game, Made in Canada.†
Chpt 22
- To be yellow in the Yellow Peril game is to be weak and small.†
Chpt 22
- Chicken Little is a large Yellow Peril puff.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)