Let not, then, all my exertions prove vain; and, above all, Sire, do not Jeopard your own precious life by mistaken leniency."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Such men would possess the confidence of the community; for they would not act, in their official connection with the negroes, in such a manner as to breed disturbances, which would inevitably Jeopard their own lives, and tend to the utter prostration of their families and interests."
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
Rather than Jeopard independence he sacrificed home, money, honours, even reputation itself.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson