A coward is someone who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

The bath which Chloe had taken was apparently more fraught with peril than the sea from which he had escaped.

Marko, what's the Yellow Peril?" "Dennis, it's xenophobia!"

One alone, / Celaeno, sings of famine foul and dread, / a nameless prodigy, a plague unknown. / What perils first to shun? what path to tread, / to win deliverance from such toils?"

Sami realized the peril he was in.

Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home.

Tom was perilously close to the edge of the cliff.

Father Zachary urged these perils to the Baron with all the force of monkish rhetoric.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, o’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.

Ignore your instincts at your peril.