Use perils in a sentence
Sentences ending with perils
- You have come to this country-town without suspicion, and you are moving in the midst of perils. [6]
- How was he to speak at all of those perils? [9]
- Never have I seen Cleopatra happier, more exalted in mind and heart, yet she was menaced on all sides by serious perils. [10]
- While examining the hair-dyes used by the Queen she saw, lurking in the background of what was still unexplained, and therefore confused her mind, fresh and serious perils. [10]
- First she was grieved, then she rejoiced; for it certainly preserved him from great perils. [10]
- She was now doubly eager to obtain a day's freedom, for she knew the unprincipled favourite's feelings towards the young beauty, and longed to discuss with Archibius the best means of guarding her from the worst perils. [10]
- Again he suddenly came to her in a new thought, free from apprehension, and as the champion of her cause to defeat the half-breed and his gang, and save Aleck from present danger or future perils. [11]
- The mad cannot be persuaded out of their delusions, perchance; but doubtless they may be persuaded to avoid perils. [5]
Sentences containing perils two or more times
- How was he to declare that the very perils which threatened her had made a man of him, with all of a man's yearning to share these perils and shield her from them? [9]
More example sentences with the word perils in them
- I was not willing to expose the brave fellows to the perils, fatigues, and hardships of that fearful route again if it could be helped. [5]
- Her grandson Hanno, who escaped with his life, at the bidding of his father Satabus, who revered his mother, had made his way to her amid great perils to convey the sorrowful news. [10]
- Yet the time was not without its undertone of anxieties, of grave perils that seemed to sanctify it and heighten its pleasures of hope. [4]
- It needed no trained eye to guess at the perils of the place. [9]
- My brother Alexander, too, who is in danger, I would fain commend to you; but he is well in body, and your remedies are of no effect against the perils which threaten him. [10]
- They are trying to revolutionize Russia from within; that's pretty slow, you know, and liable to interruption all the time, and is full of perils for the workers. [5]
- Caracalla started as though he himself had been the injured victim, and watched, but in vain, to see the supple Tarautas, who had escaped such perils before now, free himself from the weight of the German's body. [10]
- We thereby reinstate the spirit of concession and compromise, that spirit which has never failed us in past perils, and which may be safely trusted for all the future. [7]
- Ambition, hope, youth, the Foreign Office, the chancelleries of Europe, the perils of impending war, were all forgotten, or sunk into the dusky streams of subconsciousness. [11]
- The Judge distanced the enemy and at last rattled up to the station and knew that the night's perils were done; but there was no comrade-in-arms for him to rejoice with, for the soldierly driver was dead. [5]
- It is true that the larger life has pleasures and expanding capacities; but it is truer still that it has perils, events which try the soul as it is never tried in the smaller life--unless, indeed, the soul be that of the Epicurean. [11]
- His wife had sorrowed, but she had known the obstacles and perils by which he had been beset. [9]
- The hermit endures solitude, hunger, cold, and manifold perils, to content his autocrat, who prefers these things, and prayer and contemplation, to money or to any show or luxury that money can buy. [5]
- But, ardently as she might return his love, loyal and discreet as her conduct might be, there were other grave perils menacing the tie which united the Emperor to Barbara. [10]
- It should be said, however, that perhaps the present perils are due not to the new system, but to the fact that it is new; when the novelty is worn off the peril may cease. [4]
- I'll--" He paused, realising the crisis in which David was moving, and that perils were thick around their footsteps. [11]
- How had she preserved--yes, he might call it so--her aristocratic bearing, amid the turmoil, perils, and mire of camp-life, in spite of all, all! [10]
- Sympathy for the poor mariner's perils is rot; give it to his wife's hard lines, where it belongs! [5]
- While enduring these perils, sad news was brought from Jamestown. [4]
- Whoso touches him perils his life! [5]
- The nation has passed its perils, and it is free, prosperous, and powerful. [7]
- Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone--if still alive. [5]
- At the end of the next three hours I had been through perils so awful that all peace of mind and all cheerfulness were gone from me. [5]
- So this duenna of Gabriel Druse's household, this aristocratic, silent woman was ever on the watch for some sudden revelation of a being which had not found itself, and which must find itself through perils and convulsions. [11]
- Oh, prithee delay not; to delay at such a time were to double and treble the perils that already compass thee about. [5]
- These happenings, if not varied, were of critical moment, since, passing down from the land of unchanging ice and snow, they had come into March and April storms, and the perils of the rapids and the swollen floods of May. [11]
- They went forth, Mentor and Telemachus, at the appointed time, to dare the perils of the railroad and the snares of the city. [6]
- The news that Marcus' mother Mary had sent for Herse had reached the singer, and his vivid fancy painted his wife as surrounded by a thousand perils, threatened by the widow, and carried before the judges. [10]
- I sat in marble resolution, with my eyes fixed upon vacancy, for in spirit I was already wrestling with the perils of the mountains, and my friend sat gazing at me in adoring admiration through his tears. [5]
- She had escaped many perils, and where could she feel so safe as under her father's roof? [10]
- And indeed, no man could have gazed at the pair now come together again after so many perils, and not have felt his heart uplifted. [10]
- Colonel Haskell and Major Gaines, members here, both fought in the war, and both of them underwent extraordinary perils and hardships; still they, like all other Whigs here, vote, on the record, that the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President. [7]
- But her ambition, Luis; perils may arise from that. [10]
- Here there is little crime, though the perils of life are many. [11]
- Fortunately, the outdoor life at Keilhau counteracted the perils which might have arisen from attending theatrical performances too young. [10]
- Now I have learned to know the perils which threaten those who see the chief good in happiness. [10]
- Other letters recorded its perils in Committee of the whole, and by and by its victory, by just the skin of its teeth, on third reading and final passage. [5]
- They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. [7]
- The 'cub' pilot is early admonished to despise all perils connected with a pilot's calling, and to prefer any sort of death to the deep dishonor of deserting his post while there is any possibility of his being useful in it. [5]
- The desert of ice that stretched far and wide about us was wild and desolate beyond description, and the perils which beset us were so great that at times I was minded to turn back. [5]
- I had come hither full of beautiful ideals and animated by the best intentions; but the very first day made me suspect how many obstacles I should encounter; though I did not yet imagine the perils which lay in my companion's words. [10]
- Her image possessed him, excluding the future, the perils that surrounded them. [11]
- The soldiers were halted a little distance from the two; and the officer commanding, after a dull mechanical preamble, in the name of the Government, formally called upon Valmond and Lagroin to surrender themselves, or suffer the perils of resistance. [11]
- The engagement had been desperate, the valiant Araminta having been fought, not alone against odds as to her enemy, but against the irresistible perils of a coast upon which the Admiralty charts gave cruelly imperfect information. [11]
- My heart overflowed as I saw, look which way I might, no perils, none, nothing, verily nothing that was not well-ordered and brought to a good end, nothing that was not a certainty, and such a blessed certainty! [10]
- She felt safe and sheltered in the possession of the man whom she loved, though fully aware of the perils which threatened him, and, perhaps, her also. [10]
- For minds enfeebled and relaxed by stories lacking even intellectual fibre are in a poor condition to meet the perils of life. [4]
- He was only an ornamental appendage at this time, and was seldom called upon to exercise his function; but there had been times, not many generations past, when the office of taster had its perils, and was not a grandeur to be desired. [5]
- Imaged on its amber surface were the twisted boughs of the cypresses of the swamp beyond,--boughs funereally draped, as though to proclaim a warning of unknown perils in the dark places. [9]
- This may be admitted without going into the discussion whether good principles and standards in literature and morals are a sufficient equipment for the perils of life. [4]
- And the Queen, a frivolous lady, but true to those whom she loves, and beginning now to realize the perils of the situation. [9]
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