jeopard
Example Sentences
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We indulge in abandon, because, as a writer, we have no reputation to jeopard or to lose.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
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
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
Was I bound to jeopard all the common good of life for the chance of—just failing to know existence from a higher plane?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
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 J. Fenimore Cooper
