1 The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.
2 He slipped his arm about Carol's shoulder; he went down to supper rejoicing that he was cleansed of perilous stuff.
3 All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.
4 With them he pushed off; and, after much weary pulling, and many perilous, unsuccessful onsets, he at last succeeded in getting one iron fast.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 5 It was a humorously perilous business for both of us.
6 It was too obvious now that their situation was imminently perilous to need the aid of language to confirm it.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 7 There was something perilous in his position.
8 In the clouded haze men became panic-stricken with the thought that the regiment had lost its path, and was proceeding in a perilous direction.
9 But their situation was eminently perilous, and was becoming more so with every moment.
10 This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical.
11 He has fallen off from neither," said Waldemar Fitzurse; "and since it may not better be, I will take on me the conduct of this perilous enterprise.
12 Nor was he less surprised to see Richard surrounded by so many silvan attendants, the outlaws, as they seemed to be, of the forest, and a perilous retinue therefore for a prince.
13 Once only we saw a trace that someone had passed that perilous way before us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 14 As a matter of fact, burglars who have done a good stroke of business are, as a rule, only too glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without embarking on another perilous undertaking.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 15 These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they stood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJ...