There was another promenade of the room, greatly to the Endangerment of Miss Rosebury's ornaments.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
They might have introduced, too, that pleasing occupation of turning one's self into a human quintain, with a couple of clubs swung round and round over the head to the great Endangerment of the rows of plates and tureens upon the dresser, but they would have been wrong: the stairs gave both an abundance of gymnastic exercise, and their ordinary work brought their other muscles into play.
"A Double Knot"
George Manville Fenn
After inspecting the lop-sided old cottages, with their deep roomy chimneys, in which the farm labourer loved to sit of a night, roasting his ponderous boots, and smoking the pipe of meditation, and their impossible staircases, which seemed to have been designed with a deliberate view to the breaking of legs and Endangerment of spines, Mr. Granger made a wry face, and ordered that rubbish to be swept away.
"The Lovels of Arden"
M. E. Braddon