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The situation was perilous, but the odds that it would actually hit the planet were still much less than the odds that it would come close
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Other instances of note came along from time to time, some less perilous than others, but always each was met with the singleness of direction, resolve and purpose the Livingsons brought to their every endeavor
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For his own interest and safety, therefore, he might find it necessary, in this very perilous situation, to go on for some time, endeavouring, however, to withdraw gradually, and, upon that account, making every day greater and greater difficulties about discounting, in order to force these projectors by degrees to have recourse, either to other bankers, or to other methods of raising money : so as that he himself might, as soon as possible, get out of the circle
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My other uncles reassembled, but our little fleet was in a perilous condition
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In other words, the planet which is a test bed for living beings goes through a ‘rebooting’ process, every time the beings cause their own perilous exit
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He towered over even his own warriors, and his presence was intimidating, even in the less perilous times
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Ted picked the gun up and I grabbed the haversack full of its drum shaped magazines from the body of one of the gun crew and then we started on our perilous journey back to the trench
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Nonetheless, the Council had approved this mission, and she would surely never be allowed into such a perilous situation unmonitored
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After nine minutes of this effective shelling, the Spaniards fortunately held fire, and thus the crowded troops behind the ridge were able to move from their perilous position
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Conal turned to look at the faint lights shed by the houses along the distant shore, knowing that there was no way they could make such a perilous swim with an unconscious girl in tow
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When Fidel Castro permitted the mass exodus, thousands chose for themselves and their children an incredibly perilous voyage aboard anything that could float over continuing to live as they did
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Maybe it was God’s doing, testing him for purity of heart and strength of purpose to steel him further in order to come through the always perilous journey of Pilgrimage
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That was good to keep Raul from walking into a trap, but did nothing to reassure Truman that Gordon’s office would be any less perilous
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He wrote, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come
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“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Tim
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understood that this wired bag of chemicals had to be in top shape in order to navigate the perilous journey of life
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One might easily allow oneself to be spoon-fed history, but it was perilous to the
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During this perilous time, we interviewed replacement workers at a motel that served as our headquarters during the strike
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Neither had he sensed anything beyond that he had arrived in his own lands after his perilous journey, although the state of him could not be guessed at, physically or of the mind
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“Our condition is becoming perilous
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Knowing the new-found family connection between Johan and the Lost One, and the friendship forged on their perilous journey to save Gathandria, Annyeke paused and took both Johan’s hands in her own, as much as she could
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Perilous, the route is, however
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Each of the spider creatures was caught in a perilous fight
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It was a long and perilous scooter ride to his house – a grand two storeyed edifice where I was somewhat taken aback by the presence of a wife and two children
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On the second weekend they made the perilous, three hundred and fifty metre ascent up the escarpment to the tablelands where they spent two days and a night tramping between swamps, covered in mud to deter biting insects
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“Let’s not digress into the perilous paths the religions had laid for man to his bane,” said the seer
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She feared him, told herself she loathed his raw brute strength and unashamed barbarism, yet something breathless and perilous inside her leaned toward him; the hidden primitive chord that lurks in every woman's soul was sounded and responded
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Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her
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The path they had traversed was a perilous one, even for hill-men, and for that reason Conan had avoided it that day when carrying Yasmina, though Kerim Shah, following him, had taken it supposing the Cimmerian had done likewise
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Then came a startling interruption to a scene at once ludicrous and perilous
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To spend his declining years surrounded by his family was his dearest wish, and the prime reason for undertaking his perilous journey
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Such a lack of control over perilous circumstances has only one great placebo – superstition
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There was no terror in the eyes of the fish: she appeared to be enjoying every minute of her perilous descent
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they burst out laughing together, revelling in the thrill of their perilous
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His overconfidence and miscalculations caused the German army to find itself in a most perilous situation, and he had no one to blame but himself for the great German disaster in 1945
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"1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come
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Her perilous journey of the night had been all for naught
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"1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power
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It says, God calls those days perilous days, and so when people are wrapped up in a culture or in a mentality that it's about me and my fulfilment, then what happens is, we miss the best part of God's work, which is always concerned with something bigger than just ourselves
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“Having said that, a dark, perilous time is before us and before you, darker than has ever been experienced in the history of Midgard,” he said gravely, as his countenance fell before Lucia’s eyes
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She could not describe in words what was happening, but she could sense Midgard swing toward a perilous and dark season
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trail which they were undertaking was even more perilous
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protect her till her marriage, an accomplished teacher acts as a charioteer who skilfully manoeuvers his disciple’s Soul safely across the perilous
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The words of the now familiar sounding phrase ‘Looks like corridor blank is another perilous dead-end’ passed into the nearby ears of the languid Dr
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In a moment of poor life decisions, the task of writing down the names of the perilous dead-end corridors was specifically delegated to Rip
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Writing down the names of the perilous dead-ends may have been the easiest task on the ship, but it was also the most important
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They tend to just follow the orders of whatever seemingly intelligent being is at the helm of the main ship and not ask too many questions, no matter how ridiculous or perilous they may be, or how clearly they are being influenced by his gambling drunkard of a co-pilot
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Their dry throats only served as a pesky reminder for their perilous situation
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From there he’d made a perilous journey to Australia where he joined the army
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Choose the path that is perilous and leads to certain annihilation because it’s also the path that leads to me
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The absence of trees told him the drop-off was steep and perilous
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He abruptly abandoned the luxury of this memory and returned his thoughts to the perilous present
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Then, he frowned as he realized how perilous this meant his situation really was
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perilous as the „bad media?
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“These are perilous times Ariella
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began a perilous slide down the thatch, finishing off with a ten
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But alas! For every one who acquires the knowledge of these mysteries, thousands are lost in the search! One must be perfect indeed if his ambition is to accomplish this perilous journey and to dive deep into the stormy waters
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“Do you know that a perilous evil is about to invade The Freelands?” Candid, he had to
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3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come
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We live in perilous times
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Ships everywhere were being ferried through the perilous rocks by the great beasts of the sea
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I started my own perilous journey down into the dip hoping that I didn’t break a leg in the process too
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He knew he had embarked on a perilous and misbegotten journey by choosing to save Maria!
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As an innate impulse to a perilous situation I stepped in the rear of a fern to have a vigilant look
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adventures, resolved in soul to oppose my arm and person to the most perilous that fortune may offer me in aid of the weak and needy
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This strange stillness, and the thoughts, always present to our knight's mind, of the incidents described at every turn in the books that were the cause of his misfortune, conjured up to his imagination as extraordinary a delusion as can well be conceived, which was that he fancied himself to have reached a famous castle (for, as has been said, all the inns he lodged in were castles to his eyes), and that the daughter of the innkeeper was daughter of the lord of the castle, and that she, won by his high-bred bearing, had fallen in love with him, and had promised to come to his bed for a while that night without the knowledge of her parents; and holding all this fantasy that he had constructed as solid fact, he began to feel uneasy and to consider the perilous risk which his virtue was about to encounter, and he resolved in his heart to commit no treason to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even though the queen Guinevere herself and the dame Quintanona should present themselves before him
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They did so, and he lay sleeping more than three hours, at the end of which he awoke and felt very great bodily relief and so much ease from his bruises that he thought himself quite cured, and verily believed he had hit upon the balsam of Fierabras; and that with this remedy he might thenceforward, without any fear, face any kind of destruction, battle, or combat, however perilous it might be
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"Senor, you have ended this perilous adventure more safely for yourself than any of those I have seen: perhaps these people, though beaten and routed, may bethink themselves that it is a single man that has beaten them, and feeling sore and ashamed of it may take heart and come in search of us and give us trouble enough
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By this time day had fully broken and everything showed distinctly, and Don Quixote saw that he was among some tall trees, chestnuts, which cast a very deep shade; he perceived likewise that the sound of the strokes did not cease, but could not discover what caused it, and so without any further delay he let Rocinante feel the spur, and once more taking leave of Sancho, he told him to wait for him there three days at most, as he had said before, and if he should not have returned by that time, he might feel sure it had been God's will that he should end his days in that perilous adventure
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"And is it very perilous, this achievement?"
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Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance
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All this, unexpectedly encountered, took Don Quixote somewhat aback, and struck terror into the heart of Sancho; but the next instant Don Quixote was glad of it, believing that some new perilous adventure was presenting itself to him, and under this impression, and with a spirit prepared to face any danger, he planted himself in front of the cart, and in a loud and menacing tone, exclaimed, "Carter, or coachman, or devil, or whatever thou art, tell me at once who thou art, whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou carriest in thy wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat than an ordinary cart
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When he had said this and finished the tying (which was not over the armour but only over the doublet) Don Quixote observed, "It was careless of us not to have provided ourselves with a small cattle-bell to be tied on the rope close to me, the sound of which would show that I was still descending and alive; but as that is out of the question now, in God's hand be it to guide me;" and forthwith he fell on his knees and in a low voice offered up a prayer to heaven, imploring God to aid him and grant him success in this to all appearance perilous and untried adventure, and then exclaimed aloud, "O mistress of my actions and movements, illustrious and peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, if so be the prayers and supplications of this fortunate lover can reach thy ears, by thy
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He of the White Moon thanked the viceroy in courteous and well-chosen words for the permission he gave them, and so did Don Quixote, who then, commending himself with all his heart to heaven and to his Dulcinea, as was his custom on the eve of any combat that awaited him, proceeded to take a little more distance, as he saw his antagonist was doing the same; then, without blast of trumpet or other warlike instrument to give them the signal to charge, both at the same instant wheeled their horses; and he of the White Moon, being the swifter, met Don Quixote after having traversed two-thirds of the course, and there encountered him with such violence that, without touching him with his lance (for he held it high, to all appearance purposely), he hurled Don Quixote and Rocinante to the earth, a perilous fall
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This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative, but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day's work
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He had been a meatman, one of the caste which earned a perilous living in large, sail-powered land yachts that ventured far out to land and hunted the shoals of deer and buffalo that abounded in the stormhaunted continents
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In his memoir, Nixon found it worth revealing how his connection with Burger went back to 1952, a crucial and perilous point in Nixon’s career
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It was too obvious now that their situation was imminently perilous to need the aid of language to confirm it
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A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack (an alteration which he had frequently intended to execute): the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table had been placed opposite the door in the place vacated by the prune plush sofa: the walnut sideboard (a projecting angle of which had momentarily arrested his ingress) had been moved from its position beside the door to a more advantageous but more perilous position in front of the door: two chairs had been moved from right and left of the ingleside to the position originally occupied by the blue and white checker inlaid majolicatopped table
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In her lonesome cottage, by the sea-shore, thoughts visited her, such as dared to enter no other dwelling in New England; shadowy guests, that would have been as perilous as demons to their entertainer, could they have been seen so much as knocking at her door
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Peter shot off and rushed head over heels down the mountain-side, turning wild somersaults on his perilous way
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As a matter of fact, burglars who have done a good stroke of business are, as a rule, only too glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without embarking on another perilous undertaking
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He would be on perilous cliffs or unstable boulders, and the ground would heave and shift under his weight
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Coming home was an experience of profound, perilous aloneness
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His tantrums were dangerous enough, but the cold, focused passion of his present mood was far more perilous
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Waldron was a strict disciplinarian with a gift of acid humor, as exemplified upon the gentleman with the red tie, which made it perilous to interrupt him
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It was on the very evening of our perilous adventure with Challenger's home-made balloon that the change came in our fortunes
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She was blind, you see, to many things obvious to others—likely to tread in the wrong places, as Celia had warned her; yet her blindness to whatever did not lie in her own pure purpose carried her safely by the side of precipices where vision would have been perilous with fear
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We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement
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They were alone in the perilous waste without hope of further help
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The horrible sounds of Smaug's anger were echoing in the stony hollows far above; at any moment he might come blazing down or fly whirling round and find them there, near the perilous cliff's edge hauling madly on the ropes
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Why they later undertook the hard and perilous crossing of the mountains into Eriador is no longer certain
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The hobbits were glad to leave the cheerless lands and the perilous
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Frodo looked at the stone, and wished that Bilbo had brought home no treasure more perilous, nor less easy to pan with
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'He was cold now and perilous
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It is perilous to study too deeply
