Use "peril" in a sentence

1. She didn't come back into flesh to volunteer to have that flesh subjected to all kinds of needless perils

2. Both villages share a life not without its perils and not without its sweetness but there the similarity ends

3. to the horrors and perils of the War, as well as the cold and boredom

4. It is one of the great perils of the modern age you know

5. On the dark sea what perils should ensue

6. Her song is a ballad about true love and the perils one faces while searching for it

7. I’ll never understand how Ozzie sensed that he had to protect Nathaniel from those living room perils on that awful day

8. Infront of him, the opening was cold and loud with noises and uncertain perils

9. This rather dim view of convention is never mindful of the perils of excessive tolerance that must inevitably find expression in an environment where unlimited freedom will eventually be unable to sustain itself

10. and by faith, by which you have believed, 8 shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within

11. Promise me you shall find happiness even if the road of a king is tough and filled with perils

12. There was no logical reason for me to feel that way, but I could feel the bond over our perils growing stronger without me being able to fight against it

13. 12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil full of perils and very painful

14. 7 And everyone who shall be saved and shall be able to escape by his works and by faith by which you have believed 8 shall be preserved from the said perils and shall see my salvation in my land and within my borders for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning

15. 19 Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities like as these dreams declare

16. 10 In the hundred fourscore and eighth year the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea and the council and Judas sent greeting and health to Aristobulus king Ptolemeus' master who was of the stock of the anointed priests and to the Jews that were in Egypt: 11 Insomuch as God has delivered us from great perils we thank him highly as having been in battle against a king

17. They would need the quicker way, though the depths of the trees, and the perils which lay there would have to be faced and overcome, by the gods and stars above

18. Because of man’s inextinguishable yearning for change, liberalism (correctly used) sets itself to make a peace that is a proof against the above-reviewed, threatening perils of Socialism

19. Should he dare to propose to her as a way out, would she hesitate to repudiate, never mind her gratitude for his father? But, that way, wouldn’t his fear of rejection stop him in his tracks forever? After all, why should any girl like her ever consent to become his wife? Why, she would surely be averse to the idea itself! Looks like she was enamored of him, but was that enough to induce her to wed him? Couldn’t she picture the perils as his wife? Why not, given her high IQ? So it seemed to him that the choice for him boiled down to the rock and the hard surface

20. What perils yet confronted them she could not know, but her heart sang with joy because they were out of that ghostly, unreal city

21. 10 And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the religions of authority, they compromise the sovereignty of personality, debase the dignity of self-respect, and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the personal quest for truth, the exhilaration of facing the perils of intellectual discovery, the determination to explore the realities of personal religious experience, the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of spiritual faith over intellectual doubt as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence -- man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him

22. Hers is the heroism of the ordinary, not of battle or epic danger but of the small perils of daily life

23. The perils of being a testosterone charged, pimple faced teen on a mission

24. I guess these are the perils when trusting a kings cross hooker…Ha ha

25. Joey went silent, thinking about the perils he will have to face

26. demand for companies that could offer protection from the threats and perils of a host of real and

27. He had always wanted to dive at night, but the secret fear of the dark depths and hidden perils had prevented him, until then

28. Myths of encyclopedic complexity evolved to describe the perils of reaching the last land; gaining the ferryman’s assistance, negotiating wilderness, getting beyond hostile animals and unlocking secret passages

29. There was a collective growl of anger led by the older trolls, wise to the perils of leaders who had too much power

30. Rod shook his head in disbelief at the thought of all the perils he had blundered his way past on

31. You know little of the perils around you, and so you are heedless how you walk

32. That idea brought its own perils, though

33. Why not make the courses for the horses instead of flogging the lagging but to no avail; it’s only in the sports that the differing capabilities are appreciated to devise ways and means for all to have their place under the sun; won’t the bantam and heavy weight classification in boxing, wrestling and weightlifting suggest that; the perils of pitting a lightweight champion even against a heavyweight trainee are not beyond anybody’s imagination

34. Life is not as unkind to the self-introspecting man as it is to a self-reflecting bull for it lends him the scope to contain the damages the vagaries of his habit occasions; but still, save a Gary Sobers, who said he never committed the same mistake twice, man fails to benefit from the let-offs of fate, and that only proves that man is more adept at thwarting the perils without but not at averting the banes within

35. But, would the Hindu majority, recovering from the humiliation of a thousand years of alien rule, suffer a foreigner taking the capital seat of Hindustan? The Congressmen, and more so women, though seem not to mind, unmindful of the perils of having a person of foreign origin as the country’s Prime Minister! Wouldn’t every nation be a hostage of its own history that lends itself to color its people’s thinking towards the other countries and their peoples? Could an Israelite origin Prime Minister be objective in India’s ties with the Palestine? What about India’s relations with the Western world under the premiership of some naturalized Iranian or an Iraqi? Wouldn’t an Indian political head of Bangladeshi origin, nursing a grouse of his sister’s molestation by some Punjabi fauzis during the crisis in his parent country be tempted to settle scores with Pakistan with India’s military might? Why, could any such one be what he or she should be as India’s Prime Minister; without a native Indian at the helm of affairs, won’t India’s detractors exploit the handicaps of a foreign origin numero uno to jeopardize the Indian national interests?

36. While that should have woken them up to the perils posed by the double-edged sword of Islamic separateness, going by the talk on the street and the rhetoric in the maidaan, it didn’t seem to be the case

37. Better, the umma instead of pushing the fidayeen filth under the Islamic carpet should sit up and think as to how to insulate their wards from the perils of the paranoia of Muslim identity, the forerunner to the Islamic intolerance and all that follow

38. say ”jumbo” but have been warned about the perils of a

39. Circe is the first to speak of the fig tree when she instructs Ulysses on how to face the perils that still await him

40. 'You have lectured me incessantly on the perils of strong action and every time you have been proved wrong

41. This will be a long night for the crew as they search the shallower sea for the dark perils just beneath the waves

42. But many of them, for some reason too cryptic to fathom, prefer to lock them up in their room, exposed to all the perils that surround an inquiring child just able to walk, and last winter one little creature was burnt to death, sacrificed to her mother's stupidity

43. We have every grade of greatness here, from that innocent being the ensign, a creature of apparent modesty and blushes, who is obliged to stand up and drain his glass each time a superior chooses to drink to him, and who sits on the hardest chairs and looks for the balls while we play tennis, to the general, invariably delightful, whose brains have carried him triumphantly through the annual perils of weeding out, who is as distinguished in looks and manners as he is in abilities, and has the crowning merit of being manifestly happy in the society of women

44. “You build your ships and your aeroplanes and navigate them through incredible perils to land a great distance away

45. Many escaped the perils of slavery by throwing themselves overboard to watery graves, their pained souls sinking to the bottom

46. O preserve them through the paths of the seas, and in perils by waters, and perils by robbers

47. It is the less sensitively aware animal who succumbs to the perils and dangers of its environment

48. perils this turn of the day would bring

49. ‘Long, long way it is, with many perils on the

50. Myrkvid and we have perils enough without risking the horrors

51. This land is fair but has hidden perils

52. I cursed inwardly and added snakes to the perils that haunted us in the Camp of the Flies

53. On this way the individual may come across diff erent perils

54. has the perils of its own, for without self-identifi cation with any ideol-

55. That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now

56. But Don Quixote, supported by his intrepid heart, leaped on Rocinante, and bracing his buckler on his arm, brought his pike to the slope, and said, "Friend Sancho, know that I by Heaven's will have been born in this our iron age to revive revive in it the age of gold, or the golden as it is called; I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant deeds are reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies; and he who is to consign to oblivion the Platirs, the Tablantes, the Olivantes and Tirantes, the Phoebuses and Belianises, with the whole herd of famous knights-errant of days gone by, performing in these in which I live such exploits, marvels, and feats of arms as shall obscure their brightest deeds

57. Four times he stopped, and as many times did his laughter break out afresh with the same violence as at first, whereat Don Quixote grew furious, above all when he heard him say mockingly, "Thou must know, friend Sancho, that of Heaven's will I was born in this our iron age to revive in it the golden or age of gold; I am he for whom are reserved perils, mighty

58. With all the perils were yours

59. At this hole the two demi-damsels posted themselves, and observed Don Quixote on his horse, leaning on his pike and from time to time sending forth such deep and doleful sighs, that he seemed to pluck up his soul by the roots with each of them; and they could hear him, too, saying in a soft, tender, loving tone, "Oh my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, perfection of all beauty, summit and crown of discretion, treasure house of grace, depositary of virtue, and finally, ideal of all that is good, honourable, and delectable in this world! What is thy grace doing now? Art thou, perchance, mindful of thy enslaved knight who of his own free will hath exposed himself to so great perils, and all to serve thee? Give me tidings of her, oh luminary of the three faces! Perhaps at this moment, envious of hers, thou art regarding her, either as she paces to and fro some gallery of her sumptuous palaces, or leans over some balcony, meditating how, whilst preserving her purity and greatness, she may mitigate the tortures this wretched heart of mine endures for her sake, what glory should recompense my sufferings, what repose my toil, and lastly what death my life, and what reward my services? And thou, oh sun, that art now doubtless harnessing thy steeds in haste to rise betimes and come forth to see my lady; when thou seest her I entreat of thee to salute her on my behalf: but have a care, when thou shalt see her and salute her, that thou kiss not her face; for I shall be more jealous of thee than thou wert of that light-footed ingrate that made thee sweat and run so on the plains of Thessaly, or on the banks of the Peneus (for I do not exactly recollect where it was thou didst run on that occasion) in thy jealousy and love

60. Casildea, then, that I speak of, requited my honourable passion and gentle aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to engage in many perils of various sorts, at the end of each promising me that, with the end of the next, the object of my hopes should be

61. had not to fear tempests, nor pirates, nor serpents, nor any of the other perils

62. indeed known fearful perils; my troubles have been nothing compared to yours

63. Or when they are on a voyage, amid the perils of the sea?

64. "She was," continued the housekeeper, "Her affection for him was still the chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her

65. For me it was like an island of safety in a sea of perils

66. I’ve before shared the perils of playing

67. "and I love it as if it were my own flesh and blood! Aboard a conventional ship, facing the ocean's perils, danger lurks everywhere; on the surface of the sea, your chief sensation is the constant feeling of an underlying chasm, as the Dutchman Jansen so aptly put it; but below the waves aboard the Nautilus , your heart never fails you! There are no structural deformities to worry about, because the double hull of this boat has the rigidity of iron; no rigging to be worn out by rolling and pitching on the waves; no sails for the wind to carry off; no boilers for steam to burst open; no fires to fear, because this submersible is made of sheet iron not wood; no coal to run out of, since electricity is its mechanical force; no collisions to fear, because it navigates the watery deep all by itself; no storms to brave, because just a few meters beneath the waves, it finds absolute tranquility! There, sir

68. overhanging the sea—to plunge into the waves from the height of fifty, sixty, perhaps a hundred feet, at the risk of being dashed to pieces against the rocks, should you have been fortunate enough to have escaped the fire of the sentinels; and even, supposing all these perils past, then to have to swim for your life a distance of at least three miles ere you could reach the shore—were difficulties so startling and formidable that Dantes had never even dreamed of such a scheme, resigning himself rather to death

69. Ask yourself, Heyward, can daughters forget the anxiety a father must endure, whose children lodge he knows not where or how, in such a wilderness, and in the midst of so many perils?"

70. But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it; indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror

71. He had doubled the cape a few odd times and weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China seas and through all those perils of the deep there was one thing, he declared, stood to him or words to that effect, a pious medal he had that saved him

72. Of deep-sea fishings he heard tell, and mighty silver gatherings of the mile-long net; of sudden perils, noise of breakers on a moonless night, or the tall bows of the great liner taking shape overhead through the fog; of the merry home-coming, the headland rounded, the harbour lights opened out; the groups seen

73. The instinctive mood of fierce determination that had never failed him before the perils of this life added its steady force to the violence of his passion

74. the vague perils he was preparing to brave

75. perils they had to pass before they came to the dragon's stronghold

76. They thanked him, of course, with many bows and sweepings of their hoods and with many an "at your service, O master of the wide wooden halls!" But their spirits sank at his grave words, and they all felt that the adventure was far more dangerous than they had thought, while all the time, even if they passed all the perils of the road, the dragon was waiting at the end

77. out of the great perils bringing the miserable creature with him

78. Into what deadly perils he had gone alone I dared not guess

79. the perils they would meet; and they pondered the storied and figured maps and books of lore that were in the house of Elrond

80. thus they have passed through the shadow of great perils to your hall

81. Though surely there are many perils in the world

82. more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you be twice his

83. you have endured perils and seen marvels that few of our greybeards could

84. Already it seemed years to Pippin since he had sat there before, in some half-forgotten time when he had still been a hobbit, a light-hearted wanderer touched little by the perils he had passed through

85. Before this, I’d no very real Idea of the Perils of Sea-Travel

86. O I had read all the Travel Books which a bookish Young Lady dreams o’er, and I had fancied ’twas a Pity my Sex forbade me the Privilege of going to Sea as a Cabin Boy to seek my Fortune! But ne’er did I imagine Sea-Sickness, nor Lice, nor rotted Salt Pork, nor soggy Biskit, nor spoilt Water, nor, most especially, the Perils of a Storm at Sea

87. Because of all the Perils of your Infancy, you were e’en more cherish’d than another Child, and thus Love and Adoration surrounded you and held you in its Glow ev’ry Moment of your Youth

88. Of the two viewpoints, the one which tries to avoid the perils of depression appeals most to the average bond buyer

89. perils have reached the west,

90. We highly recommend Robert Koppel’s book Bulls, Bears, and Millionaires (Dearborn Financial Publishing, 1997), where the author and Mike Dever discuss the perils of model design and overfitting data

91. We’ve avoided all the perils of pin risk, and it only cost us the 0

92. Again I felt that horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of place, and I realized distinctly the perils of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work

93. After my death you must show him all the chambers, halls, and vaults in the castle, and all the treasures which are in them; but the last room in the long corridor you must not show him, for in it hangs the portrait of the daughter of the King of the Golden Palace; if he sees her picture, he will conceive a great love for her, and will fall down in a swoon, and on her account undergo great perils, therefore you must keep him away

94. ‘Her affection for him was still the chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her

95. le Duc d'Angouleme, surnamed by the liberal sheets the hero of Andujar, compressing in a triumphal attitude that was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical terrorism of the liberals; the sansculottes resuscitated, to the great terror of dowagers, under the name of descamisados; monarchy opposing an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard waved abroad by a heroic handful of Frenchmen, as the white standard had been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, glory for no one

96. Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers