171 examples of pitfalls in sentences

Those rulers drive their people into pitfalls or into the water; and your Majesty will go to punish them.

I hope, therefore, that it is a love for scientific caution, and not mere personal affection for a bantling of my own, which leads me still to think that the change of phrase is of importance, and that the sooner it is made, the sooner shall we get rid of a number of pitfalls which beset the reasoner upon the facts and theories of geology.

"Let it be equipped," returned Frederick, and in half-an-hour Eustachio and Leonardo, their hands tied behind them, were stumbling up the breach, impelled by pikes in the rear, and confronting the catapults, chevaux de frise, hidden pitfalls, Greek fire, and boiling water provided by their own direction, and certified to them the preceding evening as all that could be desired.

But mark what pitfalls line the good man's path!

My most direct way was to follow the river for about two miles and then strike straight across the large dense wood, and afterwards over a wide moor full of treacherous bogs and pitfalls for the unwary.

"Being partial to onions, and taking that liberty in Mr. Endymion's absence, knowing his dislike of the effluvium" Such are the pitfalls of a guilty conscience on the one hand, and, on the other, of being unexpectedly clever.

Some Conclusions To draw conclusions from a limited experience is a difficult matter, and the attempt holds many pitfalls for the unwary.

The authorities of Middletown are evidently leagued with the surgeons of that place, for such a break-neck succession of pitfalls and chasms I have never seen in the streets of a civilized town.

Why, there seems to be pitfalls on every side for the girl who earns her own living.

If he comes into this immediate swarming pastoral region, where the people, with ancestral love of privacy, and not from any kindly thought of him, plant evergreens around their country homes, he must live under the very guns and amid the pitfalls of the enemy.

This kind of moral disease always leads into pitfalls.

He filled the streets of the city with barricades and pitfalls, excepting two streets which led to the place of embarkation.

But the barricades and pitfalls, together with the darkness, so embarrassed their movements, that Pompey succeeded in completing his embarkation and sailing away.

The retribution had fallen very unequally upon the two parties to the conflict, but this was due to the legal traps and pitfalls prepared with such artful design by the Atchison conspiracy, and not to the personal indifference or ill-will of the Governor.

WEIMER, ARTHUR M. When you buy or build a home; how to avoid pitfalls and invest profitably.

WEIMER, ARTHUR M. When you buy or build a home; how to avoid pitfalls and invest profitably.

But when you consider how we have struggled against ignorance, how many pitfalls have been put in the path of those who desired knowledge, how we have, as it seems, done our best to make this relationship a failure, surely it is worth while, at least, to try what knowledge, and understanding, and education, and training can do.

" The gentleman smiled at the picture, and his wife added, "There are so many dangers and pitfalls that I tremble at the thought of two boys like Tom and Jim going into such a great city, where they do not know a living person.

And then the pitfalls which lie about the feet of the Frenchman who has to speak of 1793,the terrible year of the modern epoch!

PITFALLS FOR KANGAROOS.

"Our enemy on earth," he writes, "has prepared a thick woods and a dangerous ground full of pitfalls, wherein to devise his evil deeds and to hide himself from attack, as do wild beasts and venomous serpents.

This woods and these pitfalls are the songs which he has inspired to be used in his service, as praises to his honor, in the temples and elsewhere; because they are composed with such a trick that they proclaim only what the devil commands, and are understood only by those to whom they are addressed.

On the other side extended a long flat of upheaved crusts of salt and mud, full of holes and pitfalls, an exceedingly toilsome and painful place to travel, and for all we could tell, dangerous too.

We were about on a par in our knowledge or ignorance of the speech not native to us, and helped each other merrily out of the pitfalls into which we stumbled, according as English or German ruled the time.

Sweden had, on one hand, a powerful, able nobility; on the other, a strong, independent peasantry,a combination full of pitfalls for a weak ruler, but with equal promise of great things under the master hand.

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