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This is the backdrop to comments from Steve Reed, the former communities secretary and doughty defender of Sir Keir at some of his moments of most intense peril.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

It was in this context, that AllHere, in corporate financial peril, allegedly paid for Carvalho’s travel to the White House gathering, where Carvalho was featured, sources said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

People fleeing persecution because of their political beliefs, gender or sexuality, and how they pray will face certain peril.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

But the federal sign-off does not end the deal's legal peril.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

So it was spring of the Year One in Erhenrang, capital city of Karhide, and I was in peril of my life, and did not know it.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

But that same episode illustrated the perils of trusting markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Even so, as he described to me in his office, perils remain, especially for Muslim candidates.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The perils of leaving a five-star review on a wing and a prayer.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

What could they teach us about the power and perils of hero worship in a community that has produced too few figures of Chávez’s stature?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Whatever perils lay ahead, it seemed better to float down the broad tide of Anduin to meet them than to plod forward with bent backs.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Whether Franklin Roosevelt consciously led the U.S. to war, or hoped to keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night last week an old dog periled the Earl's new job.

From Time Magazine Archive

We all realize that we live in periled times, and our nation must be prepared to defend itself at a moment's notice.

From Time Magazine Archive

So that in other days, when far and wide Other lost children have for succor cried, The one now periled may be help and guide?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various

The friend and counselor of Tooke and Holcroft, he was obnoxious to the Government, but his retired habits saved him from the prosecutions that periled the lives of his more active associates.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

Justice Department attorneys respond that fears about Snepp's being a loose cannon periling the First Amendment rights of all sorts of people are greatly exaggerated.

From Time Magazine Archive

As to her periling her life, those Marsh people are amphibious anyway, or would be in those clothes.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Harte, Bret

For now it came to me that while I would be saving life, mayhap I had been periling it again.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

Their generous hostess, periling her own life for them, daily supplied them with food.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

He was one of those men, who, under more favorable circumstances, would have been a Cook, a Parry, or a Franklin, periling everything to make farther discovery in the science of geography.

From International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various

But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cause in which I perilled life was that of France, my country.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

As she bowed slightly to him, she lifted her glass to her eye, and then dropped it suddenly with a gentle simper, as though to say that another glance would have perilled her gravity.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

I had perilled my life for it, and few men do as much for an opinion; for this reason I resolved, come what would, to maintain my ground, and hold fast to my conviction.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

Lester, he will not release the bird for which he has perilled so much," she said, with frank confidence in her tones, "and we must devise some means to save both him and his prize.

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

Humbly and earnestly I sought to the God of wisdom and light to guide me; and I never felt for a moment that I was perilling my salvation.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

His mind belittled the cause for which her idolized father was, at that moment, perilling his life, and to which her dearest friends had consecrated themselves.

From An Original Belle by Roe, Edward Payson

Is she a prisoner like myself? or is she disguised, and perilling her life to save mine? or can she be—Patience!

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne

How should she separate these two beautiful faiths which had been enthroned as one in the happy depths of her guileless heart, without perilling her very trust in God!

From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

He had lost caste, he feared, with Pledge, and he was running into the enemy’s country and perilling not only himself, but Dick, in the venture.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)