This misfortune coming at such an early stage of the journey, with all the unknown country ahead of them, was most serious, and jeopardised their prospect greatly.
But not a word did Standish utter in reply to this threat, the force of which, coupled with an expressive motion of the speaker, jeopardised the imperfect spring, and wrung from Eugene a sudden exclamation.
Lottie certainly took a vast amount of trouble, and if Oswin Markham only appeared at the beginning of each rehearsal and left at the conclusion, the success of the performance was not at all jeopardised by his action.
Indeed, their speech and behaviour so discredited their mission that it would have jeopardised their safety, for all their flag of truce, with a commander of less punctiliousness than Lancelot.
It appeared to him that a failure in the Khybur Pass would bring down such a weight of unpopularity upon him that his very throne would be jeopardised by the disaster.
Just so;--but as Mr Longestaffe and you have jeopardised my client's property it is natural that I should make a few remarks.
The difference being that your client by his fault has jeopardised his own interests and those of my client, while my client has not been in fault at all.
Yet altitude so vast might well abate My confidence, if Love not succour brought, Pledging my fame not jeopardised in aught, And promising renown as ruin great.
As though a book were a young lady whose future might be seriouslyjeopardised if it made its debut at an unfashionable time.
All my ready money happens to be in their notes; about L40 is thus, if not entirely lost, at least so far jeopardised as to be trembled for.
Speed, therefore, is out of the question, and my impatience has already more than once jeopardised my character for prudence and good sense among this, the easiest-going nation that ever smoked away existence.
As I behold her so regardless of her own interests, which I hadjeopardised and was now endeavouring to recover, I redoubled my own coldness in the manner of a lesson to the girl.
He has no power, nor has John Eustace any power, to decide that the property which may belong to a third person shall be jeopardised by any arbitration.
Here a poem was presented to him in the name of the jeopardised lovers, complaining that, whenever gallantry bid them honour their mistress with a present, they had always to risk their lives on the fulfilment of the injunction.
When one’s enemy writes a book, one’s reputation is less likely to be jeopardisedby literary animosity than it is by the best superlatives of self-appointed custodians of one’s good name.
Though Melville made no further effort to save the souls of his shipmates, his own seems not to have beenjeopardised by any hankering after the instruments of damnation.
We all felt thankful that this derangement which would have jeopardised or sacrificed sixty lives, was then only a slight detention on a summer sea.
As I beheld her so regardless of her own interests, which I had jeopardised and was now endeavoring to recover, I redoubled my own boldness in the manner of a lesson to the girl.
As I beheld her so regardless of her own interests, which I had jeopardised and was now endeavouring to recover, I redoubled my own coldness in the manner of a lesson to the girl.
But she rallied, and seemed somewhat amended for the next few days, though ominous rumours were rife in London that her life had purposely been jeopardised in order to save that of the child at birth.
In consequence, many valuable lives are jeopardised from the razor being plied under such untoward circumstances.
Nay, had it not once jeopardised my very existence?
For to furl this enormous sail, in such a gale, required at least fifty men on the yard; whose weight, superadded to that of the ponderous stick itself, still further jeopardised their lives.
But having lent, the thought of her jeopardised money would throw her into agonies, and she would scheme perpetually to get it back.
All those appalling texts of judgment and reprobation he had listened to so often in chapel, protected against them by that warm inward certainty of 'election,' seemed to be now pressing against a bared and jeopardised soul.
Lucy complained, with the natural resentment of the idle who see their place in the world jeopardised by the superfluous energy of the workers, that she could never get the mill girls to say that the mill hours were too long.
The act was for the protection of voters whose rights could not be jeopardised by the negligence or misconduct of an agent charged with the delivery of the ballots, nor by canvassers charged with their counting.
Whether right or wrong, the declaration of war had jeopardised the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jeopardised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
