Perilous

Famous quotes containing the word perilous:

“A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“The very form, the very scent,
not heavy, not sensuous,
but perilous perilous
of orchids, piled in a great sheath.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“When the rock was hid by the surges’ swell,
The mariners heard the warning bell,
And then they knew the perilous rock,
And bless’d the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)