jeopard

Example Sentences

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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

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

Halliwell gives the verb juberd and defines it as "to jeopard or endanger."

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Eggleston, Edward

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

It is a circumstance of no unusual occurrence, for a gale to alter its direction with so little warning, as greatly to jeopard the safety of a ship, or even to overwhelm her.

From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by Cooper, James Fenimore