Dingley had had no idea what a perilous task had been set his rescuer.
Another occasion was equally perilous to his safety.
There is all the difference between the two which lies between unsound banking and perilous fighting.
I was sent first to the Papal Chair, and afterwards to the Court of France, and thence to other countries, on tedious embassies and in perilous times, bearing with me all the time that love of books which many waters could not extinguish.
Travelling together as far as Lyons, Wilfrid remained there for a time, and Benedict pushed on to Mont Cenis, and so to Rome, after a long and perilous journey.
Beard was engaged in that (to those who like it) delightful, but occasionally perilous duty of surveying.
Our first duty was to save the lives and the health of the men of the expedition who had honestly been performing, and had still to perform, so much perilous labor.
At one difficult and perilous place they were let down by ropes; and even thus we almost lost one.
Had they done so they would have been in the rear of the 28th Division, and the whole eastern section would have been in perilous plight.
The old Ypres salient was such a silly thing;" it had always been a danger, and now it was moreperilous than ever.
To withdraw his armies along the three railways left to him, while the spearheads were closing in hour by hour, and any day two of the three roads of escape might be lost, was a most perilous task.
The Russians were in perilous plight; for on the right the Germans bade fair to envelop their armies, and in the centre von Mackensen was thrusting them back towards the Marshes of the Pripet, in which they might be caught.
It was perilousand difficult work getting the guns down the steep slope.
Then she lay on the bottom, and her commander began to think out the next move in the perilous game.
He took with him a supply of bombs, and just before starting out on his perilous mission, asked his sergeant to open fire on the enemy's trenches as soon as he had thrown his bombs.
Here, through this perilous black cylinder of the hills, they marched at dead of night.
But these were undefeatable, the 2nd Yorkshire Light Infantry, the Marines, and the 1st North Lancashire acquitting themselves nobly in a most perilous situation.
So our officers had to watch which way the wind blew and trim their sails accordingly; and Sir William Gatacre judged that it would be perilous to delay an attack on Stormberg until circumstances seemed to be absolutely propitious.
The training of riders is not so difficult or attended with such dangers, although it is perilous enough.
She was only getting about six dollars a week for the perilous work she was doing and Farini was drawing a large salary out of which she got this pittance.
Crossing a river in battle was a perilous operation, entailing much confusion, and the chance might come at the Marne.
And who would miss him at such a time, and who, if missing, would take the trouble to look for him while the French cannon were thundering upon them and a perilous crossing was to be made?
If long left in this perilous condition, sure destruction follows; the glue or paste which fastens the cover softens, the leather loses its tenacity, and the leaves slowly rot, until the worthless volumes smell to heaven.
Rescued, at all events, from the exposure to a perilous temperature of 60 degrees below zero, the community was installed in its new home.
And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, GOD!
Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind!
Read and give heed, for the head of Obboney contains many things, perilous and otherwise to human beings.
Read and give heed, for the head of Obboney contains many things, perilous and otherwise.
Are our good Jeffrey's perilous precautions in any way warranted?
The coach having fallen into the sea on its side, one lady and gentleman managed to get their heads thrust out of the window above the water till extricated from their perilous situation; the other two were taken out dead.
The passengers, six in number, were all seated in the carriage; for accidents were so frequent that it would have been most perilous to mount the roof.
The soldiers leaped into the water and extricated the ladies from their perilous situation; the body of the coach lying on its side, with one of the horses drowned, and the rest kicking and plunging violently.
Mr. Phillpotts has chosen a period of thrills for his story and has succeeded very well in putting across the bracing atmosphere of perilous times.
The other is calm and serene; he watches the doings of his other self, considers them with calm mind, plans perilous combinations in the twinkling of an eye.
For the men of the crew, it was all in the day's work; stinking, sweating, perilous toil.
He could see no way out of his perilous position, and felt that he was certain of immediate discovery.
Such an incident serves to show how perilous a world the wild creature exists in and on how small a matter its safety often depends, and it also gives the idea of an almost uncanny intelligence in the birds that live by violence.
Whether Savonarola was right to embark upon the perilous sea of statecraft cannot now be questioned.
To be a prince of the Church was dangerous in those days; and if the Borgia had not at last poisoned himself by mistake, he must in the long-run have had to pay people to accept so perilous a privilege.
Florentines in 1328 to theperilous policy of expecting aid from Francis I.
Individuals, by their wealth, their power of aiding or of suppressing poorer citizens, and the force of their personal ability, acquired a perilous importance.
He had obtained for himself nothing but momentary glory, while he imposed on France a perilous foreign policy, and on Italy the burden of bloody warfare in the future.
By this time the duke and duchess had taken their places in a gallery commanding the enclosure, which was filled to overflowing with a multitude of people eager to see this perilous and unparalleled encounter.
What praise is too high for the magnet which leads men safely over perilous seas, or for the art of printing?
Meanwhile the progress of the packet which occasioned so much speculation, towards its destined owner at Monkbarns, had been perilous and interrupted.
Already a certain amount of discouragement was influencing their minds as to the success of their perilous enterprise.
For a few days the soldiers rested, recruiting their forces after their long and perilous marches.
Catholic subjects: he refused to give his assent, and Pitt by resigning his post sacrificed, at a perilous crisis for his country, foreign policy to the duties and obligations of parliamentary tactics.
The brakemen themselves resisted the attempt to divest their perilous occupation of one of its most insidious dangers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perilous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
