Peril
Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.
To be in danger.
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Peril Quotations
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
Joan Of Arc
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Elizabeth I
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Janet Frame
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison
Peril Translations
peril in Danish is fare
peril in Dutch is onraad, nood, gevaar, perikel
peril in Finnish is vaara
peril in French is danger
peril in German is Risiko, riskieren, Gefahr
peril in Hungarian is veszedelem
peril in Italian is pericolo
peril in Norwegian is fare
peril in Portuguese is perigo
peril in Spanish is peligro
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