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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
danger
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a potential danger/threat/risk
▪ Tired drivers are a potential danger to other road users.
a warning/danger/alarm signal (=a signal showing that there is danger)
▪ Managers should keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals.
attendant problems/difficulties/dangers etc
▪ nuclear power, with all its attendant risks
be in danger of extinction
▪ The species are in danger of extinction in the UK.
danger money
danger zone
▪ Civilians were told to leave the danger zone.
face a danger
▪ He has the courage to face danger in spite of fear.
flirting with danger
▪ Climbers enjoy flirting with danger.
grave danger
▪ Matthew’s life is in grave danger.
immediate danger
▪ There is an immediate danger of war.
imminent danger/threat/death/disaster etc
▪ He was in imminent danger of dying.
impending danger/doom/death/disaster etc
▪ She had a sense of impending disaster.
in danger of collapse
▪ His business was in danger of collapse.
pose a threat/danger/risk
▪ The chemical leak poses a threat to human health.
scented danger
▪ We scented danger and decided to leave.
sense danger
▪ He stiffened, sensing danger.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
▪ None of the patients interviews said they would have taken paracetamol had they been aware of this danger.
▪ McCain is aware of the danger that Bush may stop his surge within the next month.
▪ The adverts are designed to shock abusers and make parents more aware of the dangers.
▪ The leader is well aware of the dangers of insincerity.
▪ As a regular diver I am aware of the danger.
▪ The campus is very aware of the dangers.
▪ Read in studio Shock tactics are being used to make young drivers more aware of danger on the roads.
▪ Soon the whale is aware of the danger and starts ahead.
fraught
▪ He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers, for Bernice and for himself.
▪ Thompson and Geir can agree, but their own deliverance was fraught with danger.
▪ But I wish to alert him to a situation fraught with dangers, namely the position of black people in his country.
▪ Here Melville is suggesting that all life consists of constant voyages out and in and that each is fraught with certain dangers.
▪ From the point of view of the authorities, revitalizing the universities was a policy fraught with danger.
▪ For this whole business of killing, whether killing beasts or killing men, is supposed to be fraught with danger.
▪ But even if they are carried, the second shot becomes fraught with danger.
▪ But he, above all others, knows that this is a sport fraught with danger.
grave
▪ Mr. Flannery Is there not a grave danger of the former Soviet Union lapsing into anarchy?
▪ I put myself to sleep each night by imagining that I am in grave danger.
▪ The building now stands in grave danger from the weather, derelict and in ruins.
▪ Huamanga, which had rejected all political influence, had few partisans in Congress and thereby found itself in grave danger.
▪ Lynda La Plante is in grave danger of burning herself out and it's no laughing matter.
▪ They are susceptible of restriction only to prevent grave and immediate danger to interests which the state may lawfully protect.
▪ There is also a grave danger that the essence of education will be forgotten.
▪ I have placed you in the gravest danger.
great
▪ The greater danger is that there may be an even wider cultural gap growing between the two philosophies of rugby.
▪ The greatest danger, therefore, was in eating too much.
▪ However, the more subtle the judgement, the greater the dangers inherent in reliance on unaided intuition.
▪ They concluded that she would be exposed to great danger from a splinter of flax.
▪ It is an even greater danger to children, older people and cyclists.
▪ For example, when airplanes crash-land, one of the greatest dangers comes from fire and smoke.
▪ The longer the arrow remained in the wound, the greater the danger of infection.
▪ Are New Agers just simply home-grown nature-lovers, or are they one of the greatest dangers to confront Christendom?
immediate
▪ To Dorcas's amazement, now that the immediate danger was over, she seemed to be quite enjoying it.
▪ Its main action is to prepare us for short-term, immediate danger.
▪ It was clear, even from the heavily edited pictures, that the lives of the police were not in immediate danger.
▪ The judge said there was no evidence that the brothers were in immediate danger.
▪ But the most chilling deduction from the fact of Bill Sweet's murder was the immediate danger to Jacqui.
▪ Women not in immediate physical danger were considered privileged enough and therefore not entitled to aspire to or expect equality.
▪ It is sufficient to know that the immediate danger from the rear has been cancelled out.
▪ They are probably the No. 1 immediate danger.
imminent
▪ He was held not liable as there was a real and imminent danger and he had done what was reasonably necessary.
▪ Never was Stanford in imminent danger, though.
▪ Experts say this whole section of the ancient Abbey was in imminent danger of collapse.
▪ Fully comprehending the imminent danger, Warren sent to General Meade for a division.
▪ So intense is the chameleon's concentration that it is quite unaware of imminent danger.
▪ The tree, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, was in imminent danger of collapse.
▪ Interventions exclusively directed towards families whose children are in imminent danger of admission to care. 2.
mortal
▪ Hellenism no longer represented a mortal danger.
▪ As she reads or hears the news reports of battles, she can ascertain whether he is in mortal danger.
▪ Even mortal danger was not entirely unpleasant.
▪ Railroad traffic is a mortal danger.
▪ I am hardly in mortal danger from her, but she has drawn blood on numerous occasions.
possible
▪ I've worked at a number of occupations that put me into positions of possible danger.
▪ He has asked that the probes determine whether implant manufacturers withheld from federal regulators key studies on possible dangers of implants.
▪ In this latter case the possible danger is compounded by considerations of the last chapter.
▪ But before any work starts, Swindon Friends of the Earth wants a thorough investigation into the possible dangers.
▪ The coroner said it's up to travel companies to warn customers of any possible dangers.
▪ With damaged aircraft and a wounded crewman, Ramsay had to navigate back avoiding any possible danger spot.
▪ Be aware that you are being interviewed Social interviews create several possible dangers.
▪ The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island.
potential
▪ In the light of day, it clear to see the potential dangers of the drive.
▪ In view of their potential danger, these fishes are not recommended for a household where small children are present.
▪ The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits.
▪ Another potential danger: animal attacks.
▪ He spoke powerfully about the insecurity of football and the potential dangers behind every challenge.
▪ Understanding these potential dangers will help you prepare your business plan and stick to it.
▪ She was a potential danger after all.
real
▪ There is a real danger of super-saturation of the water.
▪ In such an environment, information overload is a real danger.
▪ But there is a real danger that lucky resorts will be fully booked within hours of a good dump.
▪ The real danger of worries is when they become chronic stressors that surface and resurface.
▪ For the first time she realised that Deana Davenport's jealous bitterness wasn't the real danger.
▪ Their only real danger, aside from their guns blowing up, was being overrun.
▪ The furore among providers about current government-funding policies which challenge the latter assumption suggests that this is a real danger.
▪ The atmosphere that grows out of this may be one of real danger to the equanimity of a teacher or administrator.
serious
▪ Certain deficiencies, of vitamins or iodine, can be harmful, and there are serious dangers from mercurial or lead poisoning.
▪ Downsizing often cut out coordinators, the people most important to these informal networks, leaving them in serious danger of collapse.
▪ Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger.
▪ Malnutrition is one of the most serious dangers.
▪ Erosion and rising sea levels are now posing a serious danger to the lowest-lying islands.
▪ And in this there is serious danger.
▪ We ought to take that serious danger into account.
▪ If heterosexuals in developed countries provide such a niche, they will be in serious danger.
■ NOUN
zone
▪ So I believe we could be entering a danger zone now.
▪ It is just a danger zone, a boundary beyond which all is lost.
▪ The staff at Usher were advised to leave the danger zone.
▪ I sent my son, Danny, far out of the danger zone.
▪ With the volume level edged up to the danger zone, Rattle's conception clicks into place.
▪ He worked inside Karelin's danger zone and frustrated him.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ The benefit of this feeding lifestyle is that it avoids the dangers of active killing of prey.
▪ The chair rotated annually and committee membership was limited to two successive years in order to avoid the dangers of elitism and institutionalisation.
▪ I have tried to avoid this danger by responding with words such as: That's interesting, what does anyone else think?
▪ To avoid danger you must start off sensibly and warm up slowly, says consumer magazine Which?
▪ With damaged aircraft and a wounded crewman, Ramsay had to navigate back avoiding any possible danger spot.
▪ They glide from high to low, to save energy and to avoid the dangers of the ground.
▪ So you avoid danger - and you think it is no danger on the Continent, too.
▪ At low doses of omeprazole doctors believe they can avoid any danger of cancer.
become
▪ We are, I fear, in danger of becoming extinct.
▪ But is this in danger of becoming shtick?
▪ Then, just as it seemed in danger of becoming stale and repetitive, it threw up De La Soul.
▪ I am not in danger of becoming too saintly, as you well know.
▪ Dear me, thought Franca, then perhaps I might be in danger of actually becoming as saintly as I seem!
▪ There is the danger that young people become permanently criminalised.
▪ I see that I am already in danger of becoming side-tracked.
▪ If this is not done then the method is in danger of becoming too abstract and distant.
face
▪ Some twenty two thousand have been made homeless, and they still face constant danger.
▪ To see clues that others have overlooked, to face danger and overcome fear.
▪ Indeed, ever since they had left their home warren, five days before, they had faced one danger after another.
▪ A literate society is only as competent to face the dangers of the future as our definition of that adjective allows.
▪ But what could be strong enough to drive a man from his homeland, to face terrible dangers in the skies?
▪ We owe debts in a democracy if we want to keep it, and sometimes payment requires facing danger.
▪ Why in such wretched circumstances, faced by such great dangers, did they still prosecute these petty feuds?
▪ Some of these women took grave risks to start their businesses and faced even more danger when they succeeded.
fall
▪ There were other dangers besides falling off the branch.
▪ There was some danger of falling in, and Janir must have sensed it, for as we crossed he stopped crying.
▪ He followed that by posting large signs advising tourists not to go under the cataract because of the danger of falling rocks.
▪ Search operations had to be suspended temporarily at one stage while the roof was demolished because of the danger of it falling in.
▪ As it was, the extremely small head of some dinosaurs no doubt reduced the dangers of falling from a great height.
lose
▪ We are however in danger of losing all touch with reality by postulating such a scenario. 3.
▪ His father was unemployed, and the family was in danger of losing its home at the time, he said.
▪ Dana didn't know Berenice was in danger of losing her child; she was careless, but not vicious.
▪ They are in danger of losing their spectator status.
▪ As the Goddesses become individual they stand in danger of losing their grandeur and mystery.
▪ Thereafter, with both players short of time and in some danger of losing by time forfeit, Kasparov counter-attacked.
▪ By November 21, the sugar crop was in danger of being completely lost to the cold, damp weather.
pose
▪ Erosion and rising sea levels are now posing a serious danger to the lowest-lying islands.
▪ Every detail of the plan must have posed dangers.
▪ Arguments that balconies and swimming pools pose dangers for children are unlikely to get very far.
▪ Added radiation exposure poses little danger, he wrote.
▪ Low growth rates pose particular dangers for centrally planned economies.
▪ The report, released earlier this week, showed hormone treatments posed no danger to humans.
▪ That poses a great danger to the House.
▪ Those who are directing the ballpark construction say the lift technology is tested and will pose little danger to workers.
put
▪ Even if we did manage to overpower them we could be putting her life in danger.
▪ But her disappearance hammers home that in modern Britain, even a fleeting two minutes alone can put a child in danger.
▪ He loved his son very much and did not want to put him in danger.
▪ The things that were ruled out were things that would put him in danger.
▪ When injured it becomes a less efficient hunting machine and puts itself in considerable danger.
▪ Their falsehood puts it in danger of collapse.
sense
▪ It was a classic face off, and Bodie sensed danger.
▪ Richard sensed danger before Philippa did.
▪ If you sense danger, act as if you can see danger itself.
▪ If they sense danger, they move on.
▪ Night is when most creatures sense danger.
▪ It senses the danger and almost instantaneously cuts off the power with a speed of reaction which can prevent a tragedy occurring.
▪ She sensed danger for Toby, but didn't know how to avoid it.
warn
▪ After he achieved celebrity status through Dynasty he took to visiting hospitals and rehabilitation centres warning youngsters of the dangers of drugs.
▪ They decide to delay warning the public of dangers from airbags until a cooperative solution can be reached. 1992&038;.
▪ Many hunters and men moving close to nature have commented on this sixth sense, warning them of danger.
▪ But nobody who regularly uses the motorway can say they haven't been warned about the dangers of driver fatigue.
▪ Sickle cell crises are extremely rare but affected individuals should be warned of the potential dangers of severe hypothermia or hypoxia.
▪ During his lessons on seamanship, Nathan had warned her about the dangers of leaving cuts untreated.
▪ Yet before the war began, this anti-nationalist opposition minority was warning of the dangers to come.
▪ He warned of the dangers of liking to walk around in flowing robes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a whiff of danger/adventure/freedom etc
▪ Instead of music we offered honest talk and a whiff of freedom.
be alive to a fact/possibility/danger etc
court danger/death etc
▪ But no evidence suggests that she courted danger for her children as she encouraged their freedom.
▪ They court death and we enjoy the spectacle so we reward them for it.
fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc
▪ Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.
▪ For this whole business of killing, whether killing beasts or killing men, is supposed to be fraught with danger.
▪ He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers, for Bernice and for himself.
▪ However, it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read?
▪ She had had a husband and lovers older than herself, and each affair had been fraught with problems.
▪ There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem, but they are themselves fraught with problems.
▪ Thompson and Geir can agree, but their own deliverance was fraught with danger.
mortal blow/danger/wound etc
▪ As she reads or hears the news reports of battles, she can ascertain whether he is in mortal danger.
▪ Hellenism no longer represented a mortal danger.
▪ His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield.
▪ Railroad traffic is a mortal danger.
▪ This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet's skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.
▪ Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.
smell trouble/danger etc
▪ Müller had smelled trouble the moment she said who she was.
▪ You seem to smell danger and taste excitement and, as television has no smell or taste, that is powerful evocation.
spell trouble/disaster/danger etc
▪ After all, one case of the trots hardly spells disaster.
▪ Delegated authority without a meaningful consultation process would spell disaster for teacher morale, motivation, commitment and hence effectiveness.
▪ However, other investors said a difficult Diet session could spell trouble for bonds in the medium-term.
▪ Staff here say that would spell disaster for hundreds of alcoholics.
▪ Troubling developments For the reference-service industry, these developments spell trouble.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Danger! High Voltage.
▪ Danger! Keep out.
▪ I stood at the side of the road and waved my arms to warn other drivers of the danger.
▪ Is there any danger of Mike being arrested?
▪ The gas leak was quickly fixed, but workers at the factory say the danger remains real.
▪ The organization ran a national campaign about the dangers of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
▪ The river has not flooded yet, but that does not mean the danger has passed.
▪ There's a real danger that the region's forests will disappear completely in the next 50 years.
▪ Wear a hat and drink plenty of fluids to reduce the danger of sunstroke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Admittedly their intimacy could have its dangers.
▪ By now, Chris was asleep, covered with ice cream and evidently not in danger.
▪ Confusion between love and work is one danger posed by the collapse of the wall between the two.
▪ In others, there are dangers he miraculously survived.
▪ The game allowed Scott to talk for the first time about feelings of fear and danger.
▪ We are however in danger of losing all touch with reality by postulating such a scenario. 3.
▪ While leprosy is slowly contagious and probably mildly contagious, its usual horrors argue the danger of neglect.
▪ Yet, with the dangers came also opportunities.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Danger

Danger \Dan"ger\, n. [OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.]

  1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.]

    In dangerhad he . . . the young girls.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below.

    You stand within his danger, do you not?
    --Shak.

    Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

  3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

  4. Difficulty; sparingness. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

  5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

    In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, ``Out of debt out of danger.''

    Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Syn: Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy.

    Usage: Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.

Danger

Danger \Dan"ger\, v. t. To endanger. [Obs.]
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
danger

mid-13c., "power of a lord or master, jurisdiction," from Anglo-French daunger, Old French dangier "power, power to harm, mastery, authority, control" (12c., Modern French danger), alteration (due to assoc. with damnum) of dongier, from Vulgar Latin *dominarium "power of a lord," from Latin dominus "lord, master" (see domain).\n

\nModern sense of "risk, peril" (from being in the control of someone or something else) evolved first in French and was in English late 14c. Replaced Old English pleoh; in early Middle English this sense is found in peril.

Wiktionary
danger

n. 1 (context obsolete English) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below. 2 (context obsolete English) liability. 3 (context obsolete English) Difficulty; sparingness. 4 (context obsolete English) Coyness; disdainful behavior. 5 (context obsolete English) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy. 6 Exposure to liable harm. 7 An instance or cause of liable harm. 8 Mischief. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To claim liability. 2 (context obsolete English) To imperil; to endanger. 3 (context obsolete English) To run the risk.

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WordNet
danger

  1. n. the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease" [ant: safety]

  2. a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing" [syn: risk, peril]

  3. a cause of pain or injury or loss; "he feared the dangers of traveling by air"

  4. a dangerous place; "He moved out of danger"

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Wikipedia
Danger

Danger may refer to:

Danger (AC/DC song)

"Danger" is a single by Australian rock band AC/DC, from the album Fly on the Wall released in 1985. It was written by Brian Johnson, Angus Young, and Malcolm Young.

In most territories, the single's b-side was "Back in Business", but in Australia and New Zealand, "Hell or High Water" was featured.

Danger (musician)

Franck Rivoire, known by his stage name Danger, is a French electronic musician.

Danger (album)

Danger is the fourth studio album by Nigerian recording artists P-Square, released by Square Records on September 12, 2009. The album produced five singles—"I Love You", "Possibility", " E No Easy", "Danger" and "Gimme Dat". It features guest appearances from 2 Face Idibia and J.Martins.

Danger (TV series)

Danger is an American anthology series which aired on CBS Television from September 1950 to May 1955. Hosted and narrated by Dick Stark, the series features an array of weekly guest stars, writers and directors.

Danger (Erykah Badu song)

"Danger" is a song by R&B singer Erykah Badu released in 2003. It is the lead single from her album Worldwide Underground. The song was a modest R&B hit, and is performed often during Badu's live shows. The song samples from, and is an effective sequel to, Badu's 1997 single " Otherside of the Game," set further along in the couple's relationship, after the woman's boyfriend has been arrested.

Danger (film)

Danger ( Telugu: డేంజర్) is a 2005 Telugu-language thriller film written and directed by Krishna Vamsi, produced by Sunkara Madhu Murali under Karthikeya Creations banner and starring Allari Naresh, Sairam Shankar, Abhishek, Swathi and Shireen in lead roles. The film soundtrack and background score were composed by Joshua Sridhar. Dialogues for the film were written by popular actor Uttej. The film was released on 29 October 2005.

Danger (Been So Long)

"Danger (Been So Long)" is the second single released by rapper Mystikal from his fourth album, Let's Get Ready, it featured singer Nivea. It was released on December 12, 2000 and was produced by The Neptunes. The single was a huge success for Mystikal and peaked high on numerous charts, it made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, #3 on the Hot Rap Singles and #8 on the Rhythmic Top 40. "Danger (Been So Long)" was his second single from the album to reach the top 20 on the charts, " Shake Ya Ass" being the first.

In 2013, "Danger" was used as part of a running gag on The Daily Show during John Oliver's tenure as interim host, in reference to Anthony Weiner's scandalous mayoral campaign and the username he used, "Carlos Danger".

Danger (Blahzay Blahzay song)

"Danger" is a song performed and produced by Blahzay Blahzay, issued as the lead single from their debut album Blah Blah Blah. The song contains many samples, including " Get It Together" by Beastie Boys and Q-Tip, " Rockin' Chair" by Gwen McCrae, and " Come Clean" by Jeru the Damaja. Recorded in 1993 but not released until 1995, the song became the group's only entry on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #46 in 1995.

Danger (Katie Underwood song)

"Danger" is the debut single from Australian singer songwriter, Katie Underwood. The single was released in September 2003 and peaked at number 33 in Australia. It was the only solo single Underwood recorded, as the record label collapsed soon after its release. In a 2014 interview, Underwood said; “I kind of gave up for a while after that, I really just lost my mojo and thought "Oh what’s the point, I’m creating my guts out over here. Meanwhile my fate’s in the hands of a guy who can’t decide whether to run a record label or not"".

At the APRA Music Awards of 2004 the song was nominated for 'Most performed dance work', losing out to " U Talkin' to Me" by Disco Montego.

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Usage examples of "danger".

According to it, the Franks, uniting with the barons of Antioch and its fiefs, abetted by certain Knights Templars and whatever forces could be recruited in Tripoli and Jerusalem, would go against Islam in the east and north, rescue Edessa, and repair the bulwarks of Antioch against the danger of invasion.

Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.

Archimages have included shielding aborigines who were in danger of being exterminated by hostile humans, and collecting and disposing of dangerous or inappropriate artifacts of the Vanished Ones that turned up in the ancient ruined cities.

Dane saw the gray of Shver skin, black-clothed, and the tension accelerated into danger.

I told her to keep quiet, but, being anxious not to frighten her, I dared not acquaint her with the danger we were running.

He knew that Tarrian was right and that even now the wolf would be silently prowling the dark edges of his addled mind to protect him from unseen dangers, just as its wilder fellows would prowl the woods in search of prey.

The Adelantado, hearing the cries, left Castaneda in his place to collect the people who had not come up, who were at least half the force, and went himself to see if they were in any danger.

A long siege and an artful negotiation, admonished the king of the Franks of the danger and difficulty of his enterprise.

Without depending on prayers or miracles, he boldly armed against the public enemy, and his pastoral letters admonished the Italians of their danger and their duty.

Edeco, who had been commanded to seize and bind the presumptuous strangers, admonished Roderic of the magnitude of the danger.

FELLOW-CITIZENS:--When the General Assembly, now about adjourning, assembled in November last, from the bankrupt state of the public treasury, the pecuniary embarrassments prevailing in every department of society, the dilapidated state of the public works, and the impending danger of the degradation of the State, you had a right to expect that your representatives would lose no time in devising and adopting measures to avert threatened calamities, alleviate the distresses of the people, and allay the fearful apprehensions in regard to the future prosperity of the State.

The scene was immediately acted with great success, and our hero cooped up in his cage, where he waited so long, that his desires began to subside, and his imagination to aggravate the danger of his situation.

There is no question that the world would be better off if Saddam did not have these weapons, but the danger is considerably less than if Saddam were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, which he believes will deter the United States and Israel and thereby would encourage him to engage in the kind of foreign aggression that would be likely to provoke a nuclear crisis.

That was ail they would allow themselves until they were back across the border and out of danger.

Though he had been ailing for years, as has been stated, yet his wonderful energy of mind made it appear to many that there was no immediate danger of his life.