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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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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

This moment of peril illustrates the layers making up the modern battlefield.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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

And anybody — or “everybody,” per Adams — who doubts these Rams, does so at their own peril.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But other aspects of her job continued to be dangerous, and sometimes the peril came from an unexpected direction.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Wilshere, who is aiming to guide Luton to promotion to the Championship this season, felt one of his managerial strengths was being able to warn his young players of the perils of professional football.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, the series follows five 20-something housemates in Queens as they navigate the pleasures and perils of early adulthood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

More broadly, scientific research does exist that supports the value of teaching the arts and humanities—and the perils of de-emphasizing them.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

Captain Shier was as gallant an officer as any who periled his life on that famous battle field; and not only a fine soldier but a polished scholar and an accomplished gentleman as well.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

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 reconnoitred every available point, searched every corner of possible danger, and as the time passed he began to rage with impatience against Dick, whose delay was now periling the success of the enterprise.

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

He had refused Kate's prayer; he had driven her to this mad search and the contagion now periling her life, or, if it were spared, leaving her a hideous specter of herself.

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

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

It is wonderful how truth has been perilled by passion.

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake

Rica's connection with Corrigan suggested to Linton's inventive mind the possibility of succeeding to that estate for which already he had perilled so much.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) 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

One of these rocks—Longstone Island—Grace Darling rendered memorable by her intrepidity in perilling her life during the storm of September, 1838.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

We saw him t’other night perilling his life to stop the poor crazy prentices, and save the foreigners. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge

About noon Dennis noticed that some shanties on the sand near them were in danger of catching fire and perilling all in that vicinity.

From Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

She was perilling her own in order to accompany and assist his expedition.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Ten of these were serving in the Union army perilling their lives to maintain that national fabric, which their illustrious ancestor had done so much to establish.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott


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