jeopard

Example Sentences

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Else why should I jeopard my life by freeing you?

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

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

How many of them have not stinted to jeopard their lives, and how many have willingly lost their lives indeed, without any great kindness showed them before—and afterward, you know, they could nothing win!

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

The rest, so far from promoting the objects of the French mission, did much to jeopard its success.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

What right had he to further jeopard the life, the honor, of these, his father's fondest treasures?

From Foes in Ambush by King, Charles