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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.

Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian

It was impossible to touch the mud of Paris without periling the subsistence of eighteen hundred persons.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

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.

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

The case of the colored man Davis, who made such a bold stroke to regain his liberty, by periling his life on board the steamer

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

Page 103 free colored men in the city, who were forced for three years to hold their meetings at New Albany, Indiana, crossing the river at midnight, often periling their lives, walking the five miles that lay between them and New Albany.

The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. 1906

Gordon and Pettigrew as they followed Stonewall Jackson, who in turn was led by the matchless Lee, but, fine as they were, here to-night they appear to even greater advantage than when they periled their lives and, in so periling them, felt of the edge of battle.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

It was the unhandsome treatment of himself and reckless periling of the character and interests of his Expedition in order to shield others, that raised his indignation.

The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

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?

Fennel and Rue William Dean Howells 1878

In contrast to heathen laxity, the ancient Christians were all the more anxiously watchful against all dominion of sensuous desire, esteeming fasting very highly, though not as a commanded duty, and eschewing the demoralizing and religion-periling influence of the heathen stage and of other amusements; and the severity of their sufferings under the hatred of the world naturally enough made all worldly pleasure appear as in diametrical antagonism to Christian-mindedness.

Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873