Sir Percy was not surprised at her cheerfulness; he had ever found in her that admirable quality of courage and gaiety of heart in the presence of dangerwhich is half the battle.
Alicia had realised some time before that she was playing a dangerous game, but who fears the danger of a game as long as one is winning?
It is commonly observed that this presence of danger produces in brave men a quickening of the intellect as well as an exhilaration of spirits, and it is equally true of brave women.
And there where most danger is, there set the readiest hunters and the best footers with the boldest hounds with them.
And if it be great danger they ought to blow a mote for the lymer and let him sue till he hath retrieved him or else till he hath brought him out of danger.
These constant precautions are no doubt necessary in these climates, still they produce an impression that danger is always at hand.
Danger in climbing there was none, beyond the risk of slipping, as we seized at a piece of old masonry in mounting from rock to rock and tower to tower.
I'm not at all sure that it will, as there seems to be a sort of lurking danger that I may make a damned fool of myself.
It was making me a brute, but I think there'll be no more dangerof that.
The younger ones, too, had led rough lives; and the lines in their faces told of many a hardship endured, and many a danger silently faced with grim, unconscious philosophy.
I was exceedingly proud of the fact that the regulars treated my regiment as on a complete equality with themselves, and were as ready to see it in a post of danger and responsibility as to see any of their own battalions.
He had evidently exactly calculated the danger zone, and found that by getting close to the traverse he could sit up erect and make ready his supper without being cramped.
Then there was Micah Jenkins, the captain of Troop K, a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, on whom dangeracted like wine.
They will never respect a commander who does not enforce discipline, who does not know his duty, and who is not willing both himself to encounter and to make them encounter every species of danger and hardship when necessary.
Is there not some danger of your leaving someone who is dependent on you too soon unprovided for?
Do you think I should be better pleased with my boys if they shrunk from everything involving the least possibility of danger because there was no occasion for it?
In the excitement of the great wreck, no one had observed the danger of the little coasting bird.
Nor let anyone fear that such employment of the divine gift of imagination will lead to foolish vagaries and useless inventions; while the object is to discover the right way--the truth--there is little danger of that.
The church she seem to tell me all the time, that for all the roaring outside, there be really no danger after all.
We are not to gratify our own benevolence at the expense of its object--not to save our own souls as we fancy, by putting other souls into more danger than God meant for them.
There was no vessel in danger now, as the talk of the spectators informed me; it was only for exercise and show that they went out.
I would hang it up with a curtain before it, and only look at it now and then, when I thought my heart was in danger of growing hardened to the sufferings of my fellow-men, and forgetting that they need the Saviour.
I suppose Thomas meant this as a reproach to Jesus for putting them all in danger by going back to Judæa; if not, it was only a poor piece of sentimentality.
Even if it held she was in danger of having her bottom stove in by bumping against the sands as the tide went out.
I fancied there was just a tinge of beseeching in Connie's eye, as I looked at her, thinking there might be danger for her in the sunlessness of the wind.
The moment we were in safety we turned and looked back over the danger we had traversed.
Is there not some danger of your having worked as if God were a hard master?
Any real thought of dangerhad not yet crossed my mind.
There was dangerof invasion--that danger is past to all seeming, but it would not have passed had not the English had men on English soil.
It is when a man is kneeling or standing, or between the two positions that the great danger lies.
He knows danger lies ahead, but friend and safety are back of him.
In rain the wagons may sink into mud-holes, or in badly shelled areas there isdanger of their turning over into a hole.
There was no danger of their damaging our own immediate positions.
I tried to listen, I tried to see; but beyond a few scattered words when your voices rose to an excited pitch, I have learned nothing but that you were in no danger save from the overthrow of your scheme.
But the obvious danger of a gang of men being placed just where they could serve as witnesses, in contradiction of the one fact upon which the whole plot was based, never even struck her imagination.
It might be urged against this plan that many couples who come to grief in the danger zone of married life--i.
It would give a second chance to those who had made a mistake, yet without resulting in that promiscuity of intercourse which is a danger to society and fatal to the best interests of the race.
When husbands and wives learn this lesson, the good ship 'Wedded Bliss' is getting into perilous waters where danger of utter wreck looms large.
The president of the Divorce Court has called this the danger zone of married life.
Mr. Quaver did not say all he thought, for he could see that, if the singing-school was kept, he would be in danger of losing his position as chorister.
I have found you my true and faithful friend, and I had been in danger of believing those over-anxious counsellors who spoke evil of you.
My running line was thus against the buttress, but, despite the imminent dangerof being cut, there was nothing to do but give him "beans.
And the danger to-day is not from the side of heresy.
A giant Irish policeman, who seemed in continual danger of a violent death, and wholly indifferent to it, stood between the car tracks and halted the rush from time to time, driving the people like sheep from one side to the other.
Hence the saying of our Lord about the needle's eye--the danger to the soul of him who owns much property.
He that loveth danger shall perish in it" (Ecclus.
Our courage and constancy must be apparent not only when we encounter danger and opposition, but also when our evil propensity urges us to yield to temptations that present sin to us in the guise of pleasure.
Let us, therefore, avoid the danger and occasion of sin; and whenever evil approaches us in any shape, let us call upon Mary, and we may rest assured that she will assist us.
He who does not overcome his predominant passion is in great danger of being lost.
Sickness among the negroes for six weeks past had kept eight or ten of them in their beds; the resort to Petit Gulf seed had substantially increased the cotton yield; and the fields were now white with a crop in danger of ruin from storms.
It may be surmised that the suppressed remarks dealt with the danger of slave revolts.
The real measure of danger was not understood but after long experience, and in the interval the precautions taken were naturally of the most jealous and rigorous aspect.
Wherever they dwelt, they lived somewhat precariously upon the sufferance of the whites, and in a more or less palpable danger of losing their liberty.
If it takes fire, it will consume all within its reach, and the danger increases daily.
The wily Indians were too cunning to cross by daylight lest they should be discovered, and Mrs. Gilham was exceedingly terrified at the danger of crossing by night.
Clark allayed their fears by assuring them there was nodanger from soldiers or marines, for no person, unless insane, would attempt to follow them in such a swamp.
This same recklessness prompts them, when the danger is scarcely past, to make verses or pictures of their exploits or to tattoo them upon their persons, heedless of consequences.
Therefore, you need apprehend no danger from me; the secret of your crime shall not be revealed by me.
While he was speaking, I regarded him attentively, and was struck with his boyish beauty; for the excitement of the adventure and the danger of his position had caused a flush upon his cheeks and a sparkle in his eyes, which captivated me.
It may be proper to mention that Mr. Hedge knew nothing of the Italian's visits to his wife; for Julia received him in a private parlor of her own, and there was no danger of interruption.
There is nothing that dwellers in the country see with greater satisfaction than the conviction, slowly ripening in the public mind, that this tramp nuisance and danger must shortly be dealt with, and the firmer the hand the better.
But, of a sudden, Chippy was forced to mark the terrible danger which hung over him.
In difficulty and danger women have great presence of mind.
This function exercises itself almost without pain and without danger in the brute.
So far, he had but taken upon himself, in the stead of Cornelius, a certain amount of personal risk; though he hardly supposed himself to be facing the danger of death.
It is a steeper incline than horses and carriages are expected to surmount, yet trains pass up and down constantly without difficulty, and it is confidently asserted, without more danger than on ordinary lines.
He didn't know what the danger was, and he didn't wait to find out.
When Jerry Muskrat slapped the water with his tail that way, danger was very near indeed.
Danny had learned, when a very tiny fellow, that there the only safe thing to do when danger was near was to sit perfectly still and hardly breathe.
You see, then he was watching for danger every minute, and so he wasn't likely to be surprised by his hungry enemies.
But in the later, he courted danger for the sake of retaining the fame he so dearly prized.
He was perplexed and tormented by the doubt, whether or not to express openly to Violante his apprehensions of the nature of the danger to be apprehended.
But it was in the endurance of calamity rather than the defiance of danger that the courage of Cicero was deficient.
There is danger rather of its being dammed into stagnation.
But that might mean any thing: what danger to himself would not menace her?
Halil perceived the danger of indulging his passion, and promised to suppress it; but whilst he played a prudent part, Miriam’s curiosity was also excited, and she too beheld and loved her cousin.
And if the public really knew how much danger their pockets were in when the "buttons" were under the control of inexperienced lawyers, the number of "starvers" would be doubled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "danger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
