How put himself in imminent peril?

The benevolent HOWARD was led into the same quarter of the globe, and into perils more deadly than those of war, by a wish to exterminate, or rather to restrain, the ravages of that terrific enemy to human life, the Plague.

He left his now comfortable home, and all the various employments that occupied his time, and travelled restlessly from place to place, defying the storms and the waves, in a miserable canoe; and meeting, with an undaunted courage, the assembled parties of hostile tribes whom he sought, at his own extreme peril, to bring into alliance with the English.

" She nodded, realizing it was best the villagers did not suspect that an enemy of the newspaper had placed them all in dire peril.

At any rate, you have told me daily for more than a year that I am living under constant peril of assassination; have I seemed to quail thereat?

They all declare that the industrial outlook in the North is most perilous, and that at any moment a situation may arise which will be fraught with the gravest peril to the country.

In after years, when she looked on that awful time, she often wondered how, feeling as she did that she was surrounded by so many unknown perils, she had ever closed her eyes.

Yet it is natural for a person in mortal peril to cry for assistance.

But whyassuming one were not misled by a chance likeness to that heavy but athletic figure so well-rememberedwhy had Dupont lingered so long in the neighbourhood, in hourly peril of arrest?

I called the ladies one day into the outer grounds to see a new carriage, capable, according to its arrangement, of containing from two to eight persons, and a balloon of great size and new construction which Davilo had urgently counselled me to procure, as capable of sudden use in some of those daily thickening perils, of which I could see no other sign than occasional evidence that my steps were watched and dogged.

On top of all was this unseen peril from the revolutionists, who were making the Magdalena country the center of their renewed activity, for some reason or other, and had their minds set on securing the first aeroplane ever known to be in Colombia.

It is your blind peril!"

But though I may smile at him, even rudely laugh at him, he is a great public servant who once at leastthough few at the time knewsaved his country from a most grievous peril.

If such a dreadful peril hung over them it was time his companions knew the need of haste in getting free from that doomed field of ice.

The yellow peril.

Nevertheless so you see me in utmost peril and fear, come swiftly to my succour, nor let me find death at his hands."

But it is natural to imagine, that a race, exposed to such insults and indignities, both from king and people, and who had so uncertain an enjoyment of their riches, would carry usury to the utmost extremity, and by their great profits make themselves some compensation for their continual perils.

In our hideous peril 'twas scarcely to be endured that one should go.

This is secured either by some external peril compelling to reflection, or internally, by wise thought, by good laws (framed in accordance with the general welfare, and not according to the ambition of a minority), and by the example of good men.

I When they were fairly out in the street Hilda felt like a mariner who has escaped from a lee shore, but who is beset by the vaguer and even more formidable perils of the open sea.

Unexpected peril.

But this sudden peril put fire into my heels, and in a second I was at his side.

" All his affection for the girl had revived at this unexpected sight of her, and with a lover's righteous anxiety he resented Fleck's having exposed her to the probable perils of this expedition to the enemy's secret lair.

They were actually in the midst of a storm of bursting projectiles and in immediate peril of having some damage done to their swift-flying planes such as would spell ruin to the enterprise, perhaps bring instant death to some of the fliers!

He was wholly unconscious of the water in which he was sunk to the shoulders, but every imaginative nerve was alive to the immense peril.