His fellow passenger was part and parcel of the peril that menaced him--had, in fact, been a fellow-passenger of his before.
The sight of the insignificant spy Marker lurking behind a pile of luggage reminded him that his peril might commence at any moment if he showed any sign of inconstancy to his pledge.
But," proceeded the Senator, with bland insistence, "you might have avoided the peril to your own life and the besmirching of the family name by the simple expedient of carrying out the behests of Ziegler and Company.
Forsyth heard the amazing theory with an inward qualm lest his shrewd old relative should have hit on the solution of the puzzle, and it filled him with greater apprehension than even the physical peril of the Duke had instilled.
The Duke was the man whom he had seen knocked down by Mrs. Talmage Eglinton's carriage, to the imminent peril of his life.
Trust a mule in case of peril or a panic long before a horse.
Nor was I in any peril in appropriating the little brown bear to myself.
Oh, how she longed to tell them all she knew--how the man they were decrying had spent the day watching over the safety of all present, how his cool nerve and unflagging resource had averted from them the ghastly peril that threatened.
But with morning light their peril returned, and they were reminded of this when shortly after daybreak they sighted an impi on the march.
And with this idea a new source of peril struck him.
It only remained for the crew to provision the boats and knock together some sort of a raft, as in that hour of sudden and bewildering peril best they might.
The grammar was issued as an act of parliament; no other but the royal grammar was to be thumbed without incurring the peril of a premunire.
The poem turns on the remonstrance of the ghost of the gnat, which had no other means than by inflicting its friendly sting to warn him of his peril who had thus hastily deprived it of its own innocent existence.
At the dawn of philosophy its dreams were not yet dispersed, and philosophers were often in peril of being as imaginative as poets.
In woods, in waves, in wars, she wonts to dwell And will be found with peril and with pain.
The inquisitors unexpectedly detected no act of treason; but as possibly he might stand in peril of heresy, they recommended that he should be placed under the surveillance of Bishop Bonner, which probably was a royal protection.
This had been done with the pledge of his life, for that was often in peril while he thus struck the first impulse of that reformation which not only influenced his own age, but one more remote.
In the circle of a Court there was equal peril in moralising, which was deemed to be a rebuke, as in applying rusty stories, which were considered as nothing less than disguised personalities.
They made the sign of the cross by the motion of their hand, in peril or in pleasure, in sorrow and in sin, and expected no happy issue in an adventure without frequently signing themselves with the cross.
This was the exact peril into which our English queen had been cast--probably by some Romanist who fancied himself, or herself, to be an adept.
A man with a mouth like that could not flinch in the hour of peril if he tried, for his jaw had the Kitchener grip, the antithesis of the parrot pout of the dandy, or the flabby fulness of the fool.
Sniping was kept up fitfully through the night, and they learnt that even in the darkness there was peril is rising to stretch their cramped limbs.
He threw off coat and waistcoat, wrenched off his collar, with some peril to the stud, and knotting his braces about his waist, stood ready.
The martial spirit within him was aroused by these tales of adventure and glory, and he was prepared for almost any hardship or peril in the way of the object of his ambition.
Enemies in ambush, the peril of fire, and the guarding of treasure make exciting times for the Motor Rangers--yet there is a strong flavor of fun and freedom, with a typical Western mountaineer for spice.
And Britain differs from France in the fact that much of this outlying population is available for war purposes in case of peril to the liberties of the mother country.
He is sent as a youngster to Palestine, through peril to life, through great privation, through heart-breaking drudgery, he pursues his work until he has completed a map of all western Palestine to the amazement and delight of his employers.
This is quoted with approval by Bishop Jewel in the homily Against Perilof Idolatry (see below).
I pass now to a case of a different character, which has only, within recent years, begun to attract the attention of the moralist and politician at all--the peril to life and health ensuing on the neglect of sanitary precautions.
It is in anguish, at theperil of their lives, at the cost of their charms, often to the damage of their health, that they give birth to their little ones.
Notwithstanding the peril that haunts superlative propositions, we are inclined to say that Diderot is the most striking illustration of this that the history of letters or speculation has to furnish.
I own that I do not see a chance of effecting his escape to-night, without incurring the most probable peril of having our throats cut.
With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side.
Again she was disconcerted by the abrupt change in his tone, and as in one flash she saw the peril of the moment, and the need of keeping her sense of it out of her eyes.
An hour later, at Mrs. Fisher's side in the Casino gardens, he was trying to find fresh reasons for forgetting the injury received in the contemplation of the peril avoided.
For two long hours, with the heat at times growing all but unbearable, with the peril of a gasoline explosion ever threatening, the boat's pump chugged on.
A storm from the southwest meant fanned flames and added peril to all.
One peril still lay before them--the narrow, rocky entrance of Rock Harbor.
It is a situation full of perilto personal dignity, to continuance of esteem.
He sat gazing at some impending peril with prophetic gloom.
You had to 'divert,' to 'distract' a man from the peril of looking facts in the face before you could expect him to be moderately happy.
She knew that he fully realized their peril and admired him for his efforts to conceal his fears from her.
He drew the robes securely about Annie and endeavored to allay her fears, although conscious of the peril they were in.
The petition shews how great was the peril in which the prophet perceived himself to stand: he believes that if God delay to strike down his adversaries, that longsuffering will be fatal to his own life.
Meanwhile Arria and Appius, fearing the power of this new king of Judea, and thinking also of the peril of Vergilius, travelled slowly, considering what they should do.
In the midst of his perilhe escaped, taking with him the seed of those dark revenges which, when he got the crown, destroyed all save a single member of the old court of justice and the confidence of his people.
Tell me first how you escaped the peril into which you had drawn me.
Now, he thought it grand that the Bugologist had thrown all consideration of peril to the wind and had hastened to their aid to share their desperate fortunes.
And now he had come to seek her, after all the peril and excitement and trouble he had undergone, and now, all loverlike tenderness and concern, was bending over her and murmuring to her, his deep voice almost as tremulous as her hand.
The postillion, who was recovered, was going to make his escape too; but Mr Burchell ordered him at his peril to mount again, and drive back to town.
It was shunned, however, by most of them, and, in getting the ominous name of Peril Strait, certain supposed dangers were thought to be lurking in it.
You should never have wished to see De Malfort again, after the peril of that night.
Affinity had made them brother and sister; and then they had been together in sickness and in peril of death.
Only, as a young and beautiful woman, living in an age that is full of peril for women, I should like to see you married to a good and true man--such as Denzil Warner.
But, ah, dearest angel, you know not theperil in which you walk.
