All 15 Uses
peril
in
Ben Hur
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- Scarcely less blatant are the dealers in birds—doves, ducks, and frequently the singing bulbul, or nightingale, most frequently pigeons; and buyers, receiving them from the nets, seldom fail to think of the perilous life of the catchers, bold climbers of the cliffs; now hanging with hand and foot to the face of the crag, now swinging in a basket far down the mountain fissure.†
Chpt 1.6perilous = dangerous
- Besides his usual strength, he had the indefinite extra force which nature keeps in reserve for just such perils to life; yet the darkness, and the whirl and roar of water, stupefied him.†
Chpt 3.5perils = dangers
- More than that, if fortune doth but serve me kindly, and we get well out of this peril, I will do thee such favor as becometh a Roman who hath power and opportunity to prove his gratitude.†
Chpt 3.6peril = danger
- Take back the ring"—he took the seal from his finger—"take it back, and all thy promises of favor in the event of delivery from this peril.†
Chpt 3.6
- Perilous passages were they, my daughter; but the Lord blessed all I undertook.†
Chpt 4.4perilous = dangerous
- Seeing the peril past, all the bystanders burst into derisive laughter.†
Chpt 4.8peril = danger
- To-day, O most generous sheik, my life was in peril, and would have been lost had not a youth, the counterpart of this one—if, indeed, he be not the very same—intervened when all others fled, and saved me.†
Chpt 4.14
- in consideration of thy sestertii in peril, their loss being the worst which could befall one of thy high estate—I quit calling thee after the foolish old King of Phrygia—by this time, I say (meaning after having read me so far), I have faith to believe thou hast ceased saying tut-tut, and art ready to think what ought to be done in such emergency.†
Chpt 5.1
- It is not probable Messala will set peril on foot for me until he has given the procurator time to answer him; and that cannot be in less than seven days from the despatch of his letter.†
Chpt 5.8
- This trial, its perils and consequences, the spectators knew thoroughly; and if the opinion of old Nestor, uttered that time he handed the reins to his son, were true— "It is not strength, but art, obtained the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise"— all on the benches might well look for warning of the winner to be now given, justifying the interest with which they breathlessly watched for the result.†
Chpt 5.13perils = dangers
- Messala, fearful of losing his place, hugged the stony wall with perilous clasp; a foot to the left, and he had been dashed to pieces; yet, when the turn was finished, no man, looking at the wheel-tracks of the two cars, could have said, here went Messala, there the Jew.†
Chpt 5.14perilous = dangerous
- Messala, on the perilous edge of the goal, heard, but dared not look to see what the awakening portended.†
Chpt 5.14 *
- By permission of the Lord, he had triumphed; and he derived faith from the circumstance—faith the source of all rational strength, especially strength in peril.†
Chpt 5.16peril = danger
- The man to whose security he had devoted himself, and upon whose life he had been building so largely, was in personal peril; yet he stood still.†
Chpt 8.8
- To say truth, O reader, he was not entirely recovered from the picture of the Christ before the Gate Beautiful as it had been given by the Egyptian; and, besides that, the very calmness with which the mysterious person confronted the mob held him in restraint by suggesting the possession of a power in reserve more than sufficient for the peril.†
Chpt 8.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)