perilousness

One specific trading favorite, betting on the difference in pricing between a summer and winter contract, is known in the market as the "widow maker" for its perilousness.

Hedge Funds Whipsawed by Gas Bets 2010

I've seen the thought expressed many times recently by liberals and free-thinkers that they just can't understand how someone can look at what Bush & Co. are doing and not see the idiocy, criminality, and perilousness of it.

Why God hates Democrats, and other tortured logic shunn 2004

I've seen the thought expressed many times recently by liberals and free-thinkers that they just can't understand how someone can look at what Bush & Co. are doing and not see the idiocy, criminality, and perilousness of it.

Why God hates Democrats, and other tortured logic shunn 2004

No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea, without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

And if she is correct about the perilousness of our own situation, as I sorrowfully believe her to be, then those who, like Mr. Stone, adhere so deeply to the natural superiority of the capitalist world would appear to have much more to learn from her than they know.

Tuchman and History Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth 1978

Unappeased hunger, mosquitoes, and the perilousness of the situation occupy my attention for some hours, when, seeing nothing further of the vengeful aspirants for my gore, I drag my weary way up-stream, through sand and shallow water.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

This conversation had been so serious to both Dot and the Kangaroo, that they had quite forgotten the perilousness of their position.

Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889

The very perilousness of her position renders her solicitous to attract and to appease.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

Now, secondly, let me ask you to look at the special perilousness of these hidden faults.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea, without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855