jeopard
Example Sentences
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And when they heard of his adventures, they marveled that he would jeopard his person so, alone.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger
Halliwell gives the verb juberd and defines it as "to jeopard or endanger."
From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston
Why should he jeopard his own life, if it was not agreed that he should be there?
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
It is clearly a dialect form of jeopard, and I make no doubt that juberous is a dialect variation of jeopardous, occasionally used as a form of dubious.
From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston
If it should prove otherwise, Congress can, at any time, amend those laws in such manner as, while subserving the public welfare, not to jeopard the rights, interests, and liberties of the people.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
