A direct attack on Roman slavery, as it would have called in question the rightfulness of warthe leading policy of the Roman governmentwould, of course, have been peculiarly perilous to its presumptuous author.

" The boys began to realize that they were engaged in a decidedly perilous adventure.

The path was exceedingly perilous; we walked down, leading our horses, and once were obliged to unload our mules to get them past a tree, which would have forced them off the brink of a chasm several hundred feet deep.

The situation was becoming gradually more perilous; but, having passed several dangerous spots, I dared not think of descending; for, so steep was the entire ascent, one would inevitably fall to the glacier in case a single misstep were made.

" Great encouragement it certainly was to these mariners, so far from home, and in their imminently perilous condition, to know that a countryman and a friend was so near them, to afford shelter and protection.

If they intended to stay, and wished us to do likewise, we were quite prepared to do so, but we did not feel equal to the responsibility of keeping more than a hundred wounded in a position so obviously perilous.

At length it became positively perilous for the weaker party to go beyond the precincts of their own citadel except in bodies of three or four together.

Although the river was somewhat less violent from this point on, the lower water line would make traveling practically as perilous as on the preceding day.

" On March 4, Morse, with four companions, started from Rome on the seemingly perilous journey to Florence.

Puberty and adolescence are specially perilous to them for they may endeavour to compensate for an inner feeling of physical inferiority by going in strenuously for athletics and sports, and so risking a sudden hemorrhage in the brain, producible by the tearing of a blood vessel, as if constructed of defective rubber.

Instead of keeping along in a direct line the biplane had uptilted and was now shooting downward in what seemed a terribly perilous way; just as though the pair of precious scoundrels had taken a notion to end the pursuit by seeking a plunge into the water.

The results are unspeakably perilous when a man has to fight his way into crime.

Thus the agitation, in one nation, for disarmament, unpreparedness and a patched up peace, while the other nations are armed and embittered, not only renders the situation of the one people critically perilous, but actually cripples its power to serve the cause of world peace and humanity.

Shadowing the Hoffs was an occupation that seemed unusually perilous.

This attention on the part of the owner was distinctly perilous to the Boy's good standing with the gang.