To get there it was necessary to pass through a section of the enemy's country; but the perilous passage was safely negotiated.

And now he was waiting for the dark, before venturing the last perilous passage.

When he does, his company will enter one of the most perilous passages facing any family enterprise - the transition from founder to offspring.

Here, we navigated a perilous passage between thickets of forest and the black hole of eternity.

Long, long, long, to him seemed that bitter and perilous passage; but at last he won through to the furthest side.

Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage they discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory casket,- the poor little Indian's skeleton.

Mrs. Merkel has survived a perilous passage to becoming the chancellor-designate since the federal elections on Sept. 19.

Only then, with their perilous passage ended, did her crew agree to transfer themselves to the destroyer.

A crackdown by Western countries on immigration, they say, only makes the passage more perilous and the smuggler's job more lucrative.

My lungs bursting from the strain, floating boxes and containers of various sorts adding an additional hazard to our perilous underwater passage to safety!