On this, as on many other occasions, the Mahratta cause was jeopardised by jealousies; Holkar holding aloof during the action, which would have begun earlier, and in all probability proved more decisive and with less loss, had he given due co-operation.
"Fall-of-the-Moghul-Empire-of-Hindustan"
Keene, H. G. (Henry George)
He's a kind of man I can't afford to trifle with; and you know the Caballero connection is of too much use to be jeopardised.
"The Lovels of Arden"
M. E. Braddon
The patient was not a young man; the shock had been very severe-it was a case, a very slight one, of cerebral congestion-and Mr. Ireland's reason, if not his life, might be gravely jeopardised by any attempt to recall before his enfeebled mind the circumstances which had preceded his collapse.
"The Old Man in the Corner"
Baroness Orczy