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Now that the day of such patrol service in the aid of Spain is ended forever, there can be no harm in telling some of the details that might have been compromising before.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull

To have been found with Leo would have been compromising, would have roused Fritz's anger.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Giovanni's duties were light, and he had plenty of time to spare, and his pertinacity in finding her would have been compromising if he had been less ingeniously tactful.

From The White Sister by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Steinheil really have been compromising and giving herself away if she had thus prepared, as it were, the evidence of her mother against Mariette or her son?

From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite

You have been compromising all along on the factors you really wanted in order to get young, healthy, moral people to Venus.

From The Merchants of Venus by Phelps, A. H.