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- 1536, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, volume 11, published 1888, page 238:
- All this insurrection rises of persons of no reputation; “it is the dangerest insurrection that hath been seen.”
- 1870, James Godkin, chapter III, in The Land-war in Ireland: A History for the Times, page 59:
- ‘In Ulster,’ Sidney wrote, ‘there tyrannizeth the prince of pride; Lucifer was never more puffed up with pride and ambition than that O’Neill is; he is at present the only strong and rich man in Ireland, and he is the dangerest man and most like to bring the whole estate of this land to subversion and subjugation either to him or to some foreign prince, that ever was in Ireland.’
- 1905, Evelyn Everett-Green, “XXII An Act of Vengeance”, in The Secret of Wold Hall, page 244:
- “Is there danger for those who go down?” she asked. ¶ “Danger! ’Tis the dangerest task as they can set themselves to.”
- 1906 [c. 1300], Edmund Bogg, chapter IV, in Richmondshire and the Vale of Mowbary, volume 1, page 125:
- About this tyme there was a greate feste made yn Lincolnshire, to which came many gentlemen and ladies, and amonge them one lady brought a heaulme for a man of warre, with a very riche creste of gold to William Marmion, Knight, with a letter of commandement of her lady that he should go into the dangerest place in England, and then to let the heaulme be seene and known as famous. So he went to Norham; wither within four days of cumming cam Philip Mowbray, guardian of Berwicke having yn his hande 40 men of armes, the very flower of men of the Scottish marches.
- 1911, Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department, quoting Henry Nebrich, William Beckstein against The Central Star Laundry Company, Erie County, New York, page 36, line 141:
- The danger part of it is why, if you should have happened to get your arm in there, you know, or you are cleaning the machine while she is going around, certainly she is one of the dangerest machines that ever I looked at.
- 1913, Henry C. Shelley, ““Norham's Castled Steep””, in Royal Castles of England, page 337:
- As told by Leland, this story narrates how in the days when the Scots overran the border and ravaged the marches of Northumberland the castle of Norham was in the custody of one Thomas Gray, to whom there came William Marmion, a brave knight whose lady love had bidden him go to “the dangerest place in England” and there win fame for his helmet.
- 1914, State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division--Fourth Department, quoting Henry J. Walz, John Knapczyk against George Badner, page 135, line 406:
- It is because they are all placed against the wall to keep the workmen from getting back of it. The back is the dangerest part, where the agitator comes up against the back. That is done to keep workmen away from the back of the machine. They don't consider they will reach from the front to the back, because it is quite a reach to get in.
- 1923, M. Hall McAllister, “California’s Largest Game Animals”, in California Fish and Game, volume 9, number 1, page 13:
- The principal hunters and guides all seemed to have the name of Bill tacked on; their guides were Wild Bill (William Hickox); Buffalo Bill (the celebrated William F. Cody), and there was also California Bill, Rattlesnake Bill, and Tiger Bill, and they also heard of Comanche Bill and Apache Bill. But Tiger Bill had the reputation of being the “dangerest on ’em all.”
- 2020, “Episode 540: The Crimson Keep” (23:36 from the start), in Etho Plays Minecraft[1]:
- I think of all the structures or all the dungeons in the game, this is probably one of the dangerest, if not the dangerest one now.