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Parlous

adjective
1.
Fraught with danger.  Synonyms: perilous, precarious, touch-and-go.  "A parlous journey on stormy seas" , "A perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat" , "The precarious life of an undersea diver" , "Dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"






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"Parlous" Quotes from Famous Books



... a cry, but she was not of the fainting kind, and soon she was weeping and laughing by turns, kissing her handsome lad again and again. Presently, as if forgetting herself, she cried, "Ah, my boy, there's a parlous deed going on up at the Towers! You should be going to help." And George learned to his astonishment that the Squire's house was being at that moment attacked by a formidable and desperate gang. Fairburn had gone off ...
— With Marlborough to Malplaquet • Herbert Strang and Richard Stead

... through this narrow channel like a mill-race. The first swell tossed us up ten feet, and we rode on it fifty before Teta could disengage us from its clasp, and, without capsizing, divert our course westward instead of toward the parlous shore. One such jeopardy succeeded another. We were in a quarter of an hour directly under black and frowning heights from which a score of cascades and rills leaped into the air, their masses of water, carried by the gusts, falling upon us ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... campaign in the sacred name of liberty! Don't you see that the whole movement is a movement of hucksters and traders and peddling vassals swollen by wealth into envy of the power that lies in birth alone? The money-changers in Paris who hold the bonds in the national debt, seeing the parlous financial condition of the State, tremble at the thought that it may lie in the power of a single man to cancel the debt by bankruptcy. To secure themselves they are burrowing underground to overthrow a state and build upon its ruins a new one in which they shall be the masters. And to accomplish ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... liar!" shouted the boy. Lescott, standing at his side, felt that the situation was more than parlous. But, before the storm could break, some one rushed in, and whispered to Wile McCager a message that caused him to raise both hands above his ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... gun being now useless, and the Su-chen herself in a very parlous condition, it was obviously out of the question to think of attempting to conclude the fight by means of the light guns and small-arms alone; the ship would not float long enough for that. Some other plan of action must therefore be adopted, ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood



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