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In acreage terms, Germany’s wildfires are small, but they are getting worse—and the conflicts of the last century add an extra dimension of peril.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The scale of the peril is hard to comprehend and harder to articulate; they’re more curious to explore the crisis than find a fix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Wildfire risk has so far accounted for only a relatively small share of insured losses in Europe. Yet it is the fastest-growing weather peril globally," the company said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Underestimate the physical demands, external of this non-contact sport at your peril.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

‘Lord,’ she said, ‘if you must go, then let me ride in your following. For I am weary of skulking in the hills, and wish to face peril and battle.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But that same episode illustrated the perils of trusting markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Even so, as he described to me in his office, perils remain, especially for Muslim candidates.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The perils of leaving a five-star review on a wing and a prayer.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

“ProPublica’s reporting shows the perils of not having this law,” Rubin said.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Even those who survived its perils warned others against going, calling it suicidal, and telling them to expect nothing less than catastrophe.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Whether Franklin Roosevelt consciously led the U.S. to war, or hoped to keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night last week an old dog periled the Earl's new job.

From Time Magazine Archive

We all realize that we live in periled times, and our nation must be prepared to defend itself at a moment's notice.

From Time Magazine Archive

The moment Maria Antoinette saw him, forgetful of her own danger, and trembling for the body-guard who had periled their lives for her family, she exclaimed, "Monsieur La Fayette, save the body-guard."

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Corruption's band Is driven back; and periled right, Rescued by the "fanatic" hand, Spans our broad heaven of light.

From Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

Justice Department attorneys respond that fears about Snepp's being a loose cannon periling the First Amendment rights of all sorts of people are greatly exaggerated.

From Time Magazine Archive

The case of the colored man Davis, who made such a bold stroke to regain his liberty, by periling his life on board the steamer Keystone State, has excited very general attention.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

As to her periling her life, those Marsh people are amphibious anyway, or would be in those clothes.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte

It was impossible to touch the mud of Paris without periling the subsistence of eighteen hundred persons.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

What!—already faint-hearted!—A miracle of beauty such as Darville described is well worth periling one's neck to gaze upon.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage.

From Time Magazine Archive

He perilled everything, while they staked only their lives and their property.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

Beyond this, and with reference to any possibility of saving the perilled man, he was probably quite as much in the dark as any of the others.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

So long as I supported the mad troop, I could count upon her, even though it perilled her soul.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

We must not condemn the popular scrupulousness of 1789 as puerile and foolish, until we too have perilled life and fortune in the cause of liberty and equality.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

“If I did unwisely in advising resistance, and perilling your lives as well as my own, I now ask your forgiveness; on my own account I do not regret it.”

From The Island Home by Dalziel

"I give thee my gage," said the cavalier, "with this understanding, then, that I am free to fly, whenever I may do so without perilling thy life, and the life of Jacinto."

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

I thought I was perilling my head by coming here, and you tell me I have saved it.

From Vera or, The Nihilists by Oscar Wilde

He professed gratitude for the many favors he had received from the monarch, a gratitude he had never tired of making known by perilling life and property in that prince's cause.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

He had lost caste, he feared, with Pledge, and he was running into the enemy’s country and perilling not only himself, but Dick, in the venture.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey