She had large possessions and many enemies; so that, once determined to indulge her inclinations, she had to choose between incurring scandalous suspicions, and jeopardising a succession which would be contested, if she were known to have made a fresh and an unpopular marriage.
"Fall-of-the-Moghul-Empire-of-Hindustan"
Keene, H. G. (Henry George)
How often I felt, in these days, that there is a fortitude needed by man much greater than that of jeopardising his life!
"The Fixed Period"
Anthony Trollope
Besides, I was jeopardising no one's happiness but my own, and a man may do as he pleases with his own happiness.
"The Red Thumb Mark"
R. Austin Freeman