jeopard
Example Sentences
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Rather than jeopard independence he sacrificed home, money, honours, even reputation itself.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
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 Daniel Webster
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
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 Monica Stevens
It's only at night when the ghosts awaken, And gibber and whisper horrible things; For to every foot of this God-forsaken Zone of jeopard some horror clings.
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
