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perilous adjective dangerous, threatening, exposed, vulnerable, risky, unsure, hazardous, hairy (slang) unsafe, precarious, parlous (archaic) fraught with danger, chancy (informal) Translations |
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"My great and good friends," he said to his brother sovereigns, "it will be advantageous to you to learn that some questions are more complex and perilous than others, presenting a greater number of points upon which it is possible to differ. No service was too humble for him to perform in the aid of the South, no adventure to perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier, and who in good faith and without too much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in love and war. A perilous solitude, for it lasted long enough to enervate, not long enough to fortify me. |
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