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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
peril .
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Examples
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The numbers of deer in that part of the country are far from periled.
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The numbers of deer in that part of the country are far from periled.
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Our difficulties and embarrassments have been complicated and preplexing, the existence of the mission was periled, anxiety
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Doubtless, O my son, thou hast periled thy young years; but I suppose thou hast not gone up to the upper story neither looked out from the belvedere there.
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Peons passionately protected by America's altruistically-altered egalitarian economy are now welfare-wilted., pauper-periled Red Recidivists grubbing for Commie compensation!
American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995
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He believed that Rhodan wanted to get rid of his old wife and decided to send her on a mission that periled her very life.
False Front Ernsting, Walter 1976
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Obeying what he conceived to be the mandate of his State, he followed the impulse of his feelings and the example of his kindred and his friends, and periled all in that belief.
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It was a grave fault; but the weary soldier, inexperienced in the service, and unaccustomed to such night vigils, in an evil hour yielded to the demands of tired nature, little thinking that the lives of hundreds of his comrades were periled by his unfaithfulness.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens
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The fugitive king is not thinking of his flight, of any dangers that may beset him, of the companions at his side, or even of where he shall lay his periled head in the night that is coming.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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He stood in the gate of the temple he had periled his life to save,
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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