jeopard

Example Sentences

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We may deal freely with our own, but it is forbidden to jeopard the goods of another.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

They have been timidly 'practical,' ludicrously tied up to precedents, when, in times past we have urged them to some act which seemed likely to jeopard party.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by Boutwell, George S.

Else why should I jeopard my life by freeing you?

From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Crawford, Will

Why should he jeopard his own life, if it was not agreed that he should be there?

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

For the flatterer who so telleth them would, if he told a true tale, jeopard to lose his lucre.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica