jeopard
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Will you, by new issues upon which you know you have not the voice of the people, jeopard these rights which you can by the aid of the Union party secure to these freedmen?
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
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
It is a circumstance of no unusual occurrence, for a gale to alter its direction with so little warning, as greatly to jeopard the safety of a ship, or even to overwhelm her.
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
We got through in the nick of time, and shall we jeopard what we've gained?
From Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
For the thing that folk sore long for, they will make many shifts to get and jeopard themselves for.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
