"Imperil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... judge. You should have considered it your bounden duty humbly to have borne the cross that a higher will had laid upon you. But, instead of that, you rebelliously cast off your cross, you deserted the man whose stumbling footsteps you should have supported, you did what was bound to imperil your good name and reputation, and came very near to imperilling the reputation ...
— Ghosts - A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts • Henrik Ibsen
... American fame and the slanderer of American character, because he refused to say, on one-sided evidence, that an officer of the United States navy had been willing to sacrifice his superior in a hotly contested battle and imperil the result for the sake of ministering to his own personal ambition, or of gratifying a feeling of personal (p. 212) dislike and envy, of the existence of which at the ...
— James Fenimore Cooper - American Men of Letters • Thomas R. Lounsbury
... doubt" replied the statesman, "though Zeus spare me fighting one against ten! But what god possessed you to meddle in this brawl, and imperil all ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... Grove gang was conquered. They were to make more trouble but not again were they to imperil the foundations of law and order in the little community of New Salem. As they were starting away Bap McNoll turned to Harry Needles and shouted: "I'll git even with you yet—you slab-sided son ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... man, but your methods are open to severe criticism. First you imperil the lives of three carloads of men by cutting them loose from the train; then you climb a flag pole, nearly losing your own life in the attempt, and now you have lured three carloads of men to a deserted village, where you have lost them. Oh, I've ...
— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington
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