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He entered cautiously, shielding his bedroom candle with his hand and peering over it to make me out, as if his venturing in were not unperilous.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

With my hard constitution and temperate mode of living, and unperilous occupations, I ought to, and probably shall, remain above ground till there is scarcely a black hair on my head. 

From Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily

The author, who tells us he was born in 1504, lived through the most critical and not unperilous period of the times in which he wrote.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Immediately after the latter's accession Davies became a law officer for Ireland, and did good and not unperilous service there.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George