Constant experience with jeopardous tasks has eliminated the human fear of danger, and even death, in its most tragic shapes, by long association has lost its terrors. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
For all the day before they had well advised the place and said among themselves: 'If the Englishmen come on us suddenly, then we will do thus and thus, for it is a jeopardous thing in the night if men of war enter into our lodgings. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
He said that demonstrates just how collected Pacquiao has become, which makes him even more jeopardous. From Wordnik.com. [BoxingScene.com] Reference
The forefronts or frontiers of the two corners, what with fords and shelves, and what with rocks be very jeopardous and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Book. The Second Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, concerning the best state of a commonwealth, containing the description of Utopia, with a large declaration of the Godly government, and of all the good laws and orders of the same Island] Reference
For all the day before they had well advised the place and said among themselves: If the Englishmen come on us suddenly, then we will do thus and thus, for it is a jeopardous thing in the night if men of war enter into our lodgings. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Otterburn. How Sir Henry Percy and His Brother with a Good Number of Men of Arms and Archers Went after the Scots, to Win Again His Pennon That the Earl Douglas Had Won before Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and How They Assailed the Scots before Otterburn in Their Lodgings] Reference
But here it challenged man to essay a fall; for where it burst its way over rocky slopes were channels jeopardous and hardly navigable, sequences of foaming rapids, races of wild water swirling round opposing boulders, and careering indignant of restraint between long walls of beetling rock. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference
Monday, the fourth day of August, the aforesaid tempest en - dured still; and at afternoon, that day, the wind began to come large; but it blew so much, and the coasts were so jeopardous ot sands and rocks, that the same night the mariners durst not jeo - pard to take the sea, but lay still at anchor about the said isle. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
And were not these two jeopardous places indeed. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
And also as for the proper names, it is no wonder that they accord not, for some one name in these days have divers equivocations after the countries that they dwell in; but all accord in conclusion the general destruction of that noble city of Troy, and the death of so many noble princes, as kings, dukes, earls, barons, knights, and common people, and the ruin irreparable of that city that never since was re-edified; which may be example to all men during the world how dreadful and jeopardous it is to begin a war and what harms, losses, and death followeth. From Wordnik.com. [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference
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