All 6 Uses
peril
in
Year of Wonders
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- But you must know that to be man and woman under one roof is a perilous matter.†
Chpt 2perilous = dangerous
- For if one speaks 'religiously,' then one must recall that God has the power to keep you safe in peril, or to bring peril to overtake you, no matter how far or fast you run.†
Chpt 3 *peril = danger
- For if one speaks 'religiously,' then one must recall that God has the power to keep you safe in peril, or to bring peril to overtake you, no matter how far or fast you run.†
Chpt 3
- There will be much to be managed in this time of peril.†
Chpt 7
- For as Aphra had said to my father, it is not easy to surrender the safety of a roof and the certainty of bread for the perils of an open road, with winter setting in and no clear destination at its end.†
Chpt 7perils = dangers
- Jakob Merrill, the widower who lived nearest the Boundary Stone, ran out of his dwelling to wave the carter away, thinking that perchance he was some peddler, a poor soul from a far town who had blundered toward us ignorant of the perils of this place.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(peril) danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)