Some of the best-loved books - Treasure Island, King Arthur, The Hobbit - all involve a long, arduous, peril-filled search for something-or-other.
I cannot see, as my Associates seem to see, that the disposition of this case involves a great peril either to the maintenance of law and order and governmental authority on the one hand, or to the freedom of the press on the other.
It took an unprecedented disaster involving a deadly new peril to precipitate the shift.
After plot complications involving a native tribe, a big banquet and drugged wine, the visiting adventurers find themselves in peril.
In some instances, crimes classified as misdemeanours involve greater social peril than many statutory felonies, and penalties for misdemeanours may exceed those for felonies.
It's time they took a tougher approach on this issue, even if it involves some peril to them.
Later, after Shackleton had confided his intention to lead an expedition of his own, Markham supplied a generous testimonial, describing Shackleton as "well-fitted to have charge of men in an enterprise involving hardship and peril", and "admirably fitted for the leader[ship] of a Polar Expedition".
But the betting here, even without the benefit of having known Mr. Pearl, is that the word would have embarrassed him, as it would most journalists and others whose work sometimes involves physical peril.
Although Islamic State does not appear to be expending many resources on supporting its allies, the countries involved face a new peril, not only from Islamic State-inspired attacks, but also from hardened fighters returning home from the battlefields in Syria, Iraq and now Libya.
Heroism in service to a noble idea is usually not as dramatic as heroism that involves immediate physical peril.
Its apt admonition is that the superimposition of one culture on another, however well intended, is unpredictably combustible, that the mongrel of generations hence may well mutate unpleasantly, that progress (as we define it) involves peril.
