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Danger

noun

The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury. "There was widespread danger of disease"

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury. Synonyms: peril, risk. "There was a danger he would do the wrong thing"

A cause of pain or injury or loss.

A dangerous place.

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"Danger" Quotes from Famous Books

... gazed at Kathlyn, who found herself suddenly filled with strange embarrassment. In times of danger sham and subterfuge have no place. Heretofore she had met Bruce as a man, to whom a glance from her eyes had told her secret. Now that the door to civilization lay but a few miles away, the old conventions dropped their obscuring mantles over her, and she felt ashamed. And ...

— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

... said, gratefully. "I can sleep when I know you are with him. Do you think there is any danger?" ...

— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... said to be in check when he is attacked by any Piece or Pawn, for it being a fundamental law of chess that the King can never be taken, whenever any direct attack upon him is made, he must be warned of his danger by the cry of check, and the player is then compelled either to remove his King out of check, or parry the check by interposing a man between the King and the attacking Piece, or capture the ...

— The Blue Book of Chess - Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis - of All the Recognized Openings • Howard Staunton and "Modern Authorities"

... friend! he is gone! how abruptly did I quit him! how ungratefully have I repaid his kindness! ah, whither is my reason fled! he said— I was in danger! in danger? and what then have I left to fear? what have I still left to lose? my life? oh, I were happy— too, too happy— if the moment of parting with it were ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol. I. No. 3. March 1810 • Various

... a wild cry from the crowd, but it was Sonny Boy who slipped from his high perch and, not an instant too soon, drew his friend out of the danger. ...

— Sonny Boy • Sophie Swett

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