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Danger Darkness (See NIGHT.) Geiger counter radiation detector named for inventor. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 12] international radiotelephone distress signal. [Maritime Hist.: Misc.] cliff-hangers in which Pauline’s life is recurrently in danger. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 559] final alert; attack believed imminent. [Military: Misc.] symbol of peril. [Folklore: Jobes, 413] symbol of approaching pitfalls. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] symbol of approaching pitfalls. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]
rocks and whirlpool, respectively, opposite each other in the Strait of Messina. [Classical Myth.: Zimmerman, 59, 235–236] alerts consumers to presence of poison; represents death. [Folklore: Misc.] Morse code distress signal. [World Culture: Flexner, 359] “Clashing Cliffs” at the entrance to the Black Sea, said to crush vessels. [Classical Myth.: New Century, 1043] quicksands off the coast of northern Africa; any part of the sea dangerous to ships because of natural phenomena. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 251] signifies impending peril; blade suspended over banqueter by a hair. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 297] universal symbol of possible danger. [Folklore: Misc.] pictorial symbol denoting poison; grimacing face with tongue sticking out. [Am. Culture: Misc.] |
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His Majesty continued to throw the quoits as coolly as if no danger threatened his throne, but the Pumpkinhead, having caught sight of Tip, ambled toward the boy as fast as his wooden legs would go. So long as a single pass up or down the mountain was unexplored, there was hope: but when retreat seemed to be absolutely impracticable, the horror of their situation broke upon Elizabeth as powerfully as if she had hitherto considered the danger light. And if this poverty and broken estate in the better sort, be joined with a want and necessity in the mean people, the danger is imminent and great. |
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