Astonished that he had not noticed this before, and shocked at the unwariness by which he might have betrayed her into so dangerous a situation, he became at once reconciled to the idea of leaving her in a convent. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This unwariness makes the egg-switching a little easier. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
This, as I had learnt many years previously from a colleague who'd just had a bullet extracted from the lobe of his left lung because of this very unwariness, was a very unwise thing to do. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 (1966)
Peacock -- Peril through pride, ambition or unwariness. ❋ Joseph Triemens (N/A)
Although I was almost the only one exposed to vexations of this kind, partly because I felt them most keenly, and partly because they succeeded best with me on account of my extreme unwariness, there were other annoyances which all, without exception, had to put up with. ❋ Various (N/A)
Toorkisth [= a] n; for about twelve miles we traversed a dry low grass jungle of about a foot in height, tenanted by a species of wild goat, several of which we disturbed on our passage through their haunts, but not being prepared for any sport, I did not take advantage of their unwariness. ❋ Rollo Gillespie Burslem (N/A)
The first sign of unwariness would begin and end the battle. ❋ Max Brand (1918)
The only criticism it seems possible to suggest on Scheer's tactics is the unwariness of his pursuit, which might so easily have led to the total destruction of the German fleet. ❋ William Oliver Stevens (1916)
His sudden and astounding change from total unwariness to a fighting youth with every sense on the alert was something for which they were unprepared. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)
The honeyed address, however, by which the conspirators attempted to cajole the Lord into unwariness, indicated that the question they were about to submit was one requiring for its proper answer just such qualities of mind as they pretendingly attributed to Him. ❋ James Edward Talmage (1897)
But although, as often as his unwariness brought him near to these points of jarring, he would hurry away from them, conscious that here was the one profound difference between them; it was clear to him that insensibly she had moved further than she knew from her father's standpoint. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
But although, as often as his unwariness brought him near to these points of jarring, he would hurry away from them, conscious that here was the one profound difference between them, it was clear to him that insensibly she had moved further than she knew from her father's standpoint. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Whatever the strict propriety of his conduct in this case, it was sufficiently doubtful to excite a just suspicion that Hillyar would not be deterred, by over-delicacy about the neutrality of the port, from seizing any advantage offered him by the unwariness of his enemy; and so the event proved. ❋ Unknown (1877)
She felt herself to be the representative of abolitionism, and she was determined it should not suffer on account of the unwariness of its advocate -- the ground must be maintained, the point carried at all hazards. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Our unwariness, or our own free choice, has encumbered us with it; and it is in our own hands to undo it again. ❋ 1808-1892 (1843)
Plato is a perfect master of logic and rhetoric; and whenever he errs in either, as I have proved to you he does occasionally, he errs through perverseness, not through unwariness. ❋ Walter Savage Landor (1819)
This, however, was an irresistible testimony, that the resentment shewn to the author was on some other, and less justifiable account, than the publication of that book; so was it a severe satire on the unwariness of the ministry, who had not eyes to discern their justice plainly exposed, and their general proceedings bantered by a Printer, for publishing in defiance of them that same book for which another man stood arraigned. ❋ Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 (1753)
Too great a complaisance to evildoers has brought many good people, through unwariness, into a dangerous fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Lot himself, by his own folly and unwariness, was wretchedly overcome, and suffered himself so far to be imposed upon by his own children as, two nights together, to be drunk, and to commit incest, v. 33, &c. ❋ Unknown (1721)
