And to have Gail Thackeray, the Assistant Attorney General of Arizona, on one's trail was a dreadful peril for any hacker.
CHAPTER XVIII The Kangas GRIMLY, Curt Newton had taken this final desperate gamble to convince the arch- conspirator of the reality of dreadful peril.
And then Elric was spurring his horse away, riding like a man possessed or fleeing from dreadful peril-- and perhaps he was both possessed and fleeing.
I tell you, believe me, the children are in dreadful peril.
Poor as it is, making it and selling it this way puts us in dreadful peril.
Even armed and mounted as he was now, the ancient wizard, survivor of a thousand dreadful perils, could not doubt that this time, at last, the doom of utter destruction had overtaken him.
"To face who knows what dreadful perils," Rincewind added.
Our chief sufferings were now those of hunger and thirst, and when we looked forward to the means of relief in this respect, our hearts sunk within us, and we were induced to regret that we had escaped the less dreadful perils of the sea.
And moreover, the good soul could not have anticipated the dreadful perils that her niece was to encounter, perils which had left Sylvia so weak and faint that she felt she might never reach Willoughby Chase alive unless she could open her little packet and consume some of its contents.
My heart is bowed beneath a burden of concern, and try though I might to control them, my thoughts, like unruly children, return ever to the dreadful peril of my absent lord and our dearest friend.