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Example sentences for "imperilled"

Lexicographically close words:
imperii; imperij; imperil; imperiled; imperiling; imperilling; imperils; imperio; imperious; imperiously
  1. If his mind is to be harassed continually by errorists, and if his life is to be imperilled in the service of the Church, should he not be distinguished above his brethren?

  2. They endeavoured to create a prejudice against him by alleging that he was acting dictatorially, and that he was not rendering due honour to those who had so nobly imperilled or sacrificed their lives in the service of the gospel.

  3. I return sincere thanks to my fellow-prisoners who imperilled their own lives to save mine, and also to those Mississippi Unionists who so generously aided a panting fugitive on his way from chains and death to life and liberty.

  4. I regarded those who imperilled all her best interests, and plunged her into a protracted and desolating war, as the real enemies of the South.

  5. Mary Marlowe was an obedient daughter, and when her father checked her move to go to the aid of the imperilled ones on the boat, and peremptorily ordered her to wait where she was, she obeyed without protest.

  6. Marlowe forgot his own personal danger in hurrying to the help of their imperilled friends.

  7. There was scant room for this, but they were hardly less anxious than the imperilled boatmen, to whom the consequences were certain to be more serious than to themselves.

  8. This volume is not altogether a military romance, though it contains the adventures of one of those noble-hearted and patriotic young men who went forth from homes of plenty and happiness to fight the battles of our imperilled country.

  9. They were going forth to fight the battles of their imperilled country, and this reflection filled them with a heroism which the petty trials and discomforts of the camp could not impair.

  10. He did not hear the inspiring strains of the band, or the cheers that greeted the company as they went forth to do and die for their country's imperilled cause.

  11. Need I make clear that the homes of too much are as gravely imperilled as the homes of too little?

  12. This appears from the belief that by keeping up his foot the temporary king of Siam gained a victory over the evil spirits; whereas by letting it down he imperilled the existence of the state.

  13. But most of all she dreaded separation from Lisbeth; and, moreover, she asked herself how she could leave the child amid surroundings that imperilled both her spiritual and her material welfare.

  14. Without this he would, no doubt, have done his best for the imperilled sisterhood, but it added to his enjoyment of the grand and dangerous rescue.

  15. To spite her she had committed a crime as like murder as one snake is like another, and imperilled her own mother's life!

  16. The Christian Faith--to him the highest consideration--had been too greatly imperilled by his act, for the thought that he had caused all this to be calmly endurable.

  17. He thought a great deal of Bluff, and his heart swelled with gratitude over the recent rescue of the imperilled swimmer.

  18. Bluff was for dropping his gun and rushing out in the water to the assistance of his imperilled chum.

  19. Then he made his way out on the limb that Will had so vainly tried to reach, until in a few seconds he was directly over his imperilled chum.

  20. That supremacy had been imperilled for a moment when the Government declined to make an armed intervention in the struggle between Denmark and the German Powers in 1864.

  21. The honour of our land, imperilled by the oppression of our subjects was triumphantly vindicated; other good was not achieved.

  22. This left Lee at liberty to strengthen his imperilled right by bringing troops across the short interior line from his left, which he promptly did.

  23. No, the dauphin, Louis Charles, shall not then think reproachfully of his parents; he shall not have cause to complain that through want of spirit and energy they have imperilled or lost the sacred heritage of his fathers.

  24. Reason must be subject, in all its operations, to criticism, which must always be permitted to exercise its functions without restraint; otherwise its interests are imperilled and its influence obnoxious to suspicion.

  25. Have no anxiety for the practical interests of humanity--these are never imperilled in a purely speculative dispute.

  26. Hannibal would have imperilled his character of a protector of Italian towns had he encouraged a slave revolt, even if the Phoenician had not shrunk from a precedent so fatal to his native land.

  27. Count RĂ¼diger of Stahrenberg was left in command, and made all haste to put the imperilled city in a condition of defence.

  28. She did not descend from her perch, and it was his hand which steadied her there when excitement imperilled her throne.

  29. Your situation is more imperilled by this tale of a secret marriage, which Josepha, in good faith, brought to the ears of the Wildenaus.

  30. Then in a few words she told him of the queen's displeasure, the malice of her enemies, her imperilled position.

  31. But a spiritual religion is imperilled the moment that you insist upon an unspiritual people observing outward forms which are to them the essence of the new teaching.

  32. Exasperated by the injustice of this action, Mr. Seward wrote Mr. Adams a despatch which would have imperilled our relations with Great Britain had it been delivered in its original form.

  33. He had decided on his course while leaping down into the opening which had admitted the imperilled bruin into safety.

  34. Hopeless himself, his concern was for the chivalrous Larry, who had imperilled his life for him.


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