parlous vs precarious

parlous

adj
  • Attended with peril; dangerous, risky. 

  • Appalling, dire, terrible. 

precarious

adj
  • Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous. 

  • Relating to incipient caries. 

  • Depending on the intention of another. 

How often have the words parlous and precarious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )