jeopard
Example Sentences
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For the thing that folk sore long for, they will make many shifts to get and jeopard themselves for.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
"That fear, I hope, is removed; and as for my presence here, one word briefly spoken, and it shall not longer jeopard your safety."
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
It is clearly a dialect form of jeopard, and I make no doubt that juberous is a dialect variation of jeopardous, occasionally used as a form of dubious.
From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston
If it should prove otherwise, Congress can, at any time, amend those laws in such manner as, while subserving the public welfare, not to jeopard the rights, interests, and liberties of the people.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
Else why should I jeopard my life by freeing you?
From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Will Crawford
