jeopard

Example Sentences

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VINCENT: That must I needs jeopard, for other surety can there none be had.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

The correct word is jeopard, but in any case there is no need for anything so farfetched and stilted.

From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Bierce, Ambrose

He undertakes to make the philosopher's stone, and will jeopard his life upon it.

From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by Froude, James Anthony

How many of them have not stinted to jeopard their lives, and how many have willingly lost their lives indeed, without any great kindness showed them before—and afterward, you know, they could nothing win!

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

What right had he to further jeopard the life, the honor, of these, his father's fondest treasures?

From Foes in Ambush by King, Charles