jeopard

Example Sentences

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"That fear, I hope, is removed; and as for my presence here, one word briefly spoken, and it shall not longer jeopard your safety."

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

We indulge in abandon, because, as a writer, we have no reputation to jeopard or to lose.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George

For the flatterer who so telleth them would, if he told a true tale, jeopard to lose his lucre.

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

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 Eggleston, Edward

Was I bound to jeopard all the common good of life for the chance of—just failing to know existence from a higher plane?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various