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The frightened horse reared and pawed its massive hooves in the air, perilously close to Penelope’s head.

“I fail to see how three mere children, no matter how Incorrigible, could do so much damage. Just thinking about it makes me feel perilously close to having a tantrum!”

The two countries teetered perilously close to war earlier this year after militants in April killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists, in India-administered Kashmir.

When it gets a big snow, as it did earlier this month, the trail becomes buried and the whole slope becomes perilously steep.

Batting was perilously difficult when he came in.