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Sentences ending with perilous

Here was the unknown and the perilous. [13]
His position was painful and perilous. [11]
On the other hand, to have strangers carry him through the passage seemed perilous. [10]

Short sentences using perilous

You did a perilous thing. [5]

Sentences containing perilous two or more times

The survivors had a most perilous journey before them in the gathering darkness, for they must get down to the Grands Mulets before they would find a safe stopping-place--a long and tedious descent, and perilous enough even in good daylight. [5]

More example sentences with the word perilous in them

Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
Faithful and sincere, yet loving power, curious and adventurous, she must needs, without intention, without purpose, stray into perilous paths. [11]
After this I worked uninterruptedly with fresh zeal and I may say renewed pleasure at the perilous yet fascinating task until its completion. [10]
And that achieved, with the town still full of armed men, he would have a perilous run. [11]
I went fishing with her, but not in her perilous boat: I merely followed along on the ice and watched her strike her game with her fatally accurate spear. [5]
When the party were about to sally forth on their perilous path to safety, Gyng stood and cried angrily: "Well, why hasn't some one bundled up that moth-eaten Caliban? [11]
In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience. [5]
She knew it was a perilous thing to say, but it was not in her nature to speak anything but the truth when she spoke at all. [5]
He had grown very avaricious in his old age, and used to go off stealthily to hunt for non-existent and impossible gold among those perilous peaks and precipices. [5]
Ahead lay a treacherous sea, around them roaring winds, and the perilous coast of Jersey beyond all. [11]
It was a trail on which there could be no stops, and, therefore, if perilous, it was at least one that did not take long in the descent. [13]
It is known to us as the Simoom, the wind so perilous to travellers in the desert. [10]
It is perilous to revise a book while it is under way. [5]
She was good to look at: warm, lovable, fascinating in her little daring wickednesses; a fiery little animal, full of splendid impulses, gifted with a perilous temperament: and she loved him. [11]
Unless he made this, he must run south and skirt the Ecriviere Rock and bank, where the streams setting over the sandy ridges make a confusing perilous sea to mariners in bad weather. [11]
I did not think then, and I do not think now, that this was perilous to their truthfulness. [11]
Truly, the services they have rendered to the defenders of our country in this perilous time, and are yet rendering, can never be estimated as they ought to be. [7]
Last of all, there was Iberville, over whom this woman had cast a charm perilous to his soul's salvation. [11]
He had foiled them as to men they wanted; he had defied them--but he had helped them too, when it seemed right to him; he had sided with them once or twice when to do so was perilous to himself. [11]
The cause of the unaccountable delay of Sir George and the relief parties among the heights where the disaster had happened was a thick fog--or, partly that and partly the slow and difficult work of conveying the dead body down the perilous steeps. [5]
I will import the chief portion of it into this book, partly because of its intrinsic interest, and partly because it gives such a vivid idea of what the perilous pastime of Alp-climbing is. [5]
Then they would strike the long and perilous trail to ride out of Utah. [13]
Would it be strange that Foorgat, who ever flew at fruit above his head, perilous to get or keep, should be found on forbidden ground, or in design upon it? [11]
The man who stood by his side, and held the reins, could have informed him, for Ani had recognized Pentaur, and in his horror had given the reins a perilous jerk. [10]
There may be some good people who think that our young friend who puts his thoughts in verse is going sounding over perilous depths, and are frightened every time he throws the lead. [6]
We breakfasted in silence, and with the crew standing ready at the oars and Xavier scanning the wide expanse of waters ahead, seeking for that unmarked point whence to embark on this perilous journey, we floated down the stream. [9]
There are certain rules of thumb in every art, no doubt,--even in that most perilous one of lion-taming. [9]
Maurice had been reduced to the most perilous state of debility by the relapse which had interrupted his convalescence. [6]
The Maid of Provence had had a perilous travel. [11]
In the twilight poor Muss betook himself to the Nile through the grove of Hathor, with his perilous burden. [10]
The journey was perilous, and more than once it seemed as if they could not reach Quebec alive, but no member of the party was more cheerful than Jessica. [11]
It was a perilous thing to try in a tale, but I never believed it a doubtful one--provided I stuck strictly to business and didn't weaken and give up: or didn't get lazy and skimp the work. [5]
Soon after her perilous interview with Caracalla, Timotheus, with the chief of the astrologers from the Serapeum, and the emperor's astronomer, had come to her, to ask her on what day and at what hour she was born. [10]
What makes a path of this sort so perilous to a woman's heart? [4]
Philip himself was outwardly calm, with that desperate quiet which belongs to the most perilous, most adventurous achieving. [11]
But to follow our natural impulses wherever they lead us is so perilous a venture, that whoever has the power to fix a limit to it betimes is in duty bound to do so. [10]
But she spared only a few moments for the enjoyment of these feelings of delight, for there was no happiness for her without Polykarp, and it was for his sake that she had undertaken this perilous night-journey. [10]
The old touch of romance and imagination which had been the governing forces of her grandfather's life, the passion of an idea, however essentially false and meretricious and perilous to all that was worth while keeping in life, set her pulses beating now. [11]
Before he spoke of marriage the thrill--the unconvincing thrill though it was--of a perilous temptation was upon her; but the very thing most meant to move her only made her shudder; for in her heart of hearts she knew that he was ineradicably false. [11]
So it had not been possible for her to tell him what had happened to her people, or of the perilous step she had taken in order to save them. [10]
Dingley had had no idea what a perilous task had been set his rescuer. [11]
Emerson's disciples were never accused of falling into the more perilous snares of antinomianism, but he himself distinctly recognizes the danger of it, and the counterbalancing effect of household life, with its curtain lectures and other benign influences. [6]
The first six months of the Kanaka's exile are peculiarly perilous for him because of the rigors of the new climate. [5]
Though her performance might be called only a perilous feat, she felt it to be true, genuine art. [10]
His ruse in leaving the steamers in the night and marching across the desert was as courageous as it was perilous, for, if discovered before he reached the beleaguered place, nothing could save his little force from destruction. [11]
He had been known to stand singly in some perilous spot when one log, the key to the jam, must be shifted to set free the great tumbled pile. [11]
Oh, Robert, I know how perilous was the part I played, but I dared it for your sake. [11]
The king broke in: "Sell us the house and take yourselves away, for we be perilous company, being late come from people that died of the Spotted Death. [5]
She accompanied him in imagination through all his perilous expeditions; but she had been permitted to enjoy his society only after long intervals for a few days. [10]
He saved it in all kinds of difficult and perilous ways. [5]
He ceased from his more perilous rambles. [6]
I told on him, and with reckless daring the cavalcade straight ahead into the perilous solitudes of the desert, and scorned his frantic warnings of the mutilation and death that hovered about them on every side. [5]
She had dropped her anchor in perilous seas, but it had never dragged. [11]
Old sailor as he was, and knowing as well as any man the perilous ground, the skipper lost his drunken head this time, and presently lost his way also in the dark and murk of the storm. [11]
In his heart he was always in sympathy with the woodsmen, and when they were proclaimed as perilous to the peace and prosperity of the king's empire, he stood stoutly by them. [11]
She felt that he was acting bravely and nobly, and that he was lost if even for an instant his attention were distracted from his perilous footing. [10]
In a footnote he has something to say about a sailor which I thought might interest you--viz: "This same quartermaster was celebrated among the English in Mesopotamia for an entry which he made in his log-book-after a perilous storm; 'The windy and watery elements raged. [5]
Again and again he had been engaged in perilous sorties and leading forlorn hopes. [11]
When the retail grocer wakens in the morning he feels that his business is not going to come to him spontaneously; he thinks of his rivals, of his perilous stock, of his debts and delinquent customers. [4]
He saw how greatly this firmly-expressed determination agitated and disturbed the old couple, and the senator's urgency led him to tell them, under the pledge of strict secrecy, what business it was that took him away and what a perilous enterprise he had before him. [10]
Never name sickness; even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic, beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will give you enough of it. [6]
Another occasion was equally perilous to his safety. [11]
Perhaps the ardent desire to regain the divine gift of song would protect her from perilous ventures like this last one, and even more certainly the hope which she had confided to the nun and then to him also. [10]
Irving passed a couple of months in Sicily, exploring with some thoroughness the ruins, and making several perilous inland trips, for the country was infested by banditti. [4]
But little Everett Constable, who also sat on the vestry, was a trifle uncomfortable in being reminded that absence from the Communion Table was perilous, although he would have been the last to deny the efficacy of the Sacrament. [9]
The Lord Protector communed with himself --shook his head--the thought forced itself upon him, "It is perilous to the State and to us all, to entertain so fateful a riddle as this; it could divide the nation and undermine the throne. [5]
Now I have come upon perilous times, the gins are set for my feet. [11]
If a man chose to stand to that, to sternly assume this perilous position, the law had no right to take advantage of it. [11]
A man can carry it off, but a woman--" Slow and almost stupid as he was, he knew that her inheritance from her grandfather's nature was a perilous gift. [11]
Finally I was carried off in one direction, and my perilous clothes in another. [5]
The quickest way, but the most perilous, lay through the long defile between the hills, flanked by boulders and rank scrub. [11]
It would have been perilous for anybody to laugh at the English chiefs or at the majority of Cauchon's assistant judges, but to laugh at Cauchon or D'Estivet and Loyseleur was safe--nobody would report it. [5]
Nothing could have been a better advertisement for him than the perilous incident at the Red Ravine. [11]
These perilous things are built against the perpendicular face of a cliff two or three hundred feet high. [5]
Tom noticed this, and it strongly inclined his sympathies toward her in her perilous and unfriended situation. [5]
He looked up and down the road to see that no one was coming, and then said in a cautious voice: "From what land come you, brother, that you speak such perilous words, and seem not to be afraid? [5]
The perilous 'Graveyard,' among whose numberless wrecks we used to pick our way so slowly and gingerly, is far away from the channel now, and a terror to nobody. [5]
But there was a vicious strain in him somewhere, and it came out one day in a perilous fashion. [11]
So I made a speech in which I said that other Alp-climbers had been in as perilous a position as this, and yet by courage and perseverance had escaped. [5]
Queen Isabella expressed a desire for a nearer view of the city, whose beauty was renowned throughout the world, and the courteous Marques of Cadiz proposed to give her this perilous gratification. [4]
The king said: "Be merciful, fair sir, and essay no further in this perilous matter, lest disaster follow. [5]

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