Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us while the storm did not abate we agreed to trust to God Our Lord and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
Look back and smile on perils past.
The more expansive government is the more perils people face in daily lives be it from IRS agents or from child support services or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.
We were then in a dangerous helpless situation exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
Great perils have this beauty that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.