By a strange irony of fate, all his skilfully conceived plans were imperilled at the very moment when his success seemed absolutely certain.

I see it in the patience with which he suffered his fame to be imperilled for the moment by reverses and retreats, if only he might the more surely guard the frail hope of ultimate victory for his country.

The Church was really at the moment imperilled amid the crude revolutionary projects of the Reform epoch; and something bolder and more effective than the ordinary apologies for the Church was the call of the hour.

Even if the cause shall seem for a while imperilled from foreign powers, yet our duties are none the less urgent.