Word: perilous
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...Each boat shall keep its own water throughout the race, and any boat departing from its own water will do so at its peril...
From out his peril...
...This is but an idle fancy, for you might have pulled that tail with all your might and never produced the least result, unless, perhaps, you pulled the poor animal over. Need I say, then, that he was a very safe family horse? The small boy drove him without peril, except once when he was coaxed into a trot, going down hill, and directly fell down, breaking both shafts. Even then little damage was done, excepting the loss of the shafts and of a few more gray hairs...
...system has very great advantages; its abolition would be a retrograde step, and would be much lamented. It becomes Seniors, therefore, for the little time they are to stay here, to be more constant at recitations. They should remember that by their immoderate cutting they have brought into peril one of the greatest advances made in the College for many years, and if they continue to abuse the privilege as they have done, they will probably be the cause of posterity's being deprived of it. Seventy-Seven is the first class so peculiarly constituted as to be unable...
...fouled Weld, still Weld was thrown out because he attempted to take his opponent's water, which is contrary to the law of boat-racing, that "each boat shall keep its own water throughout the race, and any boat departing from its own water will do so at its peril." Page was disqualified by the rule that "no fouling whatever shall be allowed; the boat committing a foul shall be disqualified...