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What narrative trope did the silent film serial The Perils of Pauline help popularize?

peril

[per-uhl] / ˈpɛr əl /


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Congressional and state lawmakers are wrestling with how to respond to an industry that presents such extreme promise and peril.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

His key judgement, however, will be a balance between extra financial and economic support and the peril of still elevated borrowing costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Yet this true story of peril and peregrination is a treat for the mature reader, too, not least because Shulevitz had a gift for evoking how it feels to be small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"This sounds theoretical and naive but you know you destroy nature at your peril and I think we see around the world the consequences of nature degradation," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

‘I was lulled by the words of Saruman the Wise; but I should have sought for the truth sooner and our peril would now be less.’

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

Brighton was mentioned as a potential senior debut, but the perils around that made, for those close to Gabriel, the Champions League encounter with Sabah a better option.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

She was also, in her own unique way, a dedicated revolutionary, rarely letting an opportunity pass to use her appearance to point out the perils and absurdity of stereotyping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

But that same episode illustrated the perils of trusting markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Over tea in the staff room, they gossip about the patrons, about the perils of dating in middle age.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He was re-elected in 1792 and in 1796 was elected President of that Republic for which he had freely periled life, fortune and honor.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

He was not wise in so doing, for his life was of far too much value to France to be thus needlessly periled.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

Was it because the bent of Miss Shirley was so academic that she was periling upon tomboyishness without knowing it in this primal inspiration of hers?

From Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells

There was a mystery connected with her periling her life in the way she did that I could not then solve, but I made no inquiry into her secret.

From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by John McElroy

He was still holding fast his faith in General McClellan, and this was steadily widening the breach between him and Congress, and periling the success of the war.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian

He had informed Butler's agent; he had watched day and night; had given the Unionists plans of the grounds; was now periling his own rescue to bring the arch-traitor to his doom.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

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

I sincerely hope I have not perilled your journey; but I went to fetch you a rose.

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever

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 Jonathon Holt Ingraham

We must not condemn the popular scrupulousness of 1789 as puerile and foolish, until we too have perilled life and fortune in the cause of liberty and equality.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

In that case," said Nina, quietly, "Mademoiselle has only perilled herself for nothing.

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

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 Edward Payson Roe

She felt extreme reluctance in perilling her home.

From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

But what was to be done with my dear wounded friend, who had saved my life by perilling his own?

From Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping by Theodore P. Wilson

It is not impossible, however, that in taking this step I may be perilling my own safety.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever

And I," said William with the Long Sword, Earl of Salisbury, "protest in my turn against my royal brother perilling his life, which is the property of the people of England, in such a cause.

From The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott


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