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Definition of Jeopards
1. jeopard [v] - See also: jeopard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeopards
Literary usage of Jeopards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... They fell on him, ere that he »as ware, And set him vp in a full rich chare.
A foole he was to jeopards his life, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1820)
"... twenty lions, and thirty jeopards, were produced at the same time in the
amphitheatre, and a numerous train of horses, with their rich trappings, ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and for a considerable time everything that in the least degree jeopards the
harmony and balance of the many factors involved in the settled ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"jeopards, hyenas. Jackals, squirrels, elephants, deer, crocodiles, and snakes.
Salt, mica, and coal are the chief minerals. The Ganges delta yields rice, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"... jeopards the life of both mother and infant. Having great faith in the ability
of the natural powers to effect with safety the birth of the child in the ..."
6. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"So far from being safer, I maintain, on the contrary, that this sub-treasury
scheme jeopards the public money, because it multiplies the hands through which ..."
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