He had informed Butler's agent; he had watched day and night; had given the Unionists plans of the grounds; was now periling his own rescue to bring the arch-traitor to his doom.

He reconnoitred every available point, searched every corner of possible danger, and as the time passed he began to rage with impatience against Dick, whose delay was now periling the success of the enterprise.

He had refused Kate's prayer; he had driven her to this mad search and the contagion now periling her life, or, if it were spared, leaving her a hideous specter of herself.

Justly punished for wounding Redbud's hand, throwing Miss Fanny on her face, and periling the life of Longears, the unfortunate kite struggles a moment in the clouds, staggers from side to side, like a drunken man, and then caught by a sudden gust, sweeps like a streaming comet down into the autumn forest, and is gone.

Old Lord and Lady Devnant were glaring at the rest of the company from the hearth-rug, with a look of "You invade this mat at your peril!"

This would indicate that the Mastiff was recognised as a capable hunting dog; but at a later period his hunting instincts were not highly esteemed, and he was not regarded as a peril to preserved game; for in the reign of Henry III.

" "Let him touch you at his peril," cried John Lutcombe, rushing towards them, and interposing his stalwart person between her and the earl.

"Phil, where can he be?" she cried, her voice sharp now with the terror of having a man in peril of his life at her side, and yet being unable to help him.

The two venerable men then gave him a bright-red deer's tail, and an eagle's feather, which he was directed to wear on his head; they were talismans that would protect him from peril and danger, and insure him the favor of the Master of Life.

We came to think of it as natural that he should be away from us, and in peril of his life every minute of every hour.

Here was a grim warning of the peril that lurked outside.

It made me think of a man shrugging his shoulders, calmly and imperturbably, in the face of some great peril, and I wanted to cheer.

But should your views be opposed to the policy I recommend, I would entreat you to consider well how impracticable it will become to carry on coercive laboralways difficult, it would in future be in peril of constant comparisons with other colonies made free, and with those estates in this island made free by individual proprietors.

Unconsciously Monteith Sterry brought a grievous peril upon his friends, who held him in so high regard.

" "You are not wise," ventured Jennie, who, with the awful memory of the preceding day upon her, could not but shudder at the peril to her friend, who had never been quite so near to her as during the last few hours, when he showed so much tender sympathy for her and her mother and brother in the depth of their desolation and woe.

They were insufficient, however, to take him beyond peril.

She had carried her master out of many a peril, and she could be counted on to do it as long as the ability remained with her.

She had scented a new peril.

She was no more than fairly stretched away on a dead run from the new peril when she shot into an arroya or depression in the prairie.

"I know; you believed that if you stayed here you would increase the peril to us.

; Independent Review, Feb. 1904; Fortnightly Review, Feb. 1904; Contemporary Review, Aug. 1897; C.F.G. Masterman's In Peril of Change, 1905, pp.

I have already referred to the German Emperor's celebrated suggestion that in order to avert the peril of Hunnishness we should all become Huns.

Who could tell whether Francethe new France she had been calledwould rise above her old weaknesses and confront the peril of this war with a strong, pure, and undivided spirit?

Those in peril on the Lee.

This was the girl whom to see, perhaps in his arms, she was now periling her liberty and her life unknown to him!