He had accordingly to be content with the resolve to keep a wary eye on Henshaw's movements.

Mrs. Potts was aghast in behalf of William Shakspere, and Marcella Eubanks was crimsoning at the blunt query about Byron, well knowing that he could be taken up by a lady only with the wariest caution, and that he would much better be let alone.

Now, when famine drove them to the very doors of the one enemy to be feared, only the wisest and wariest old wolf was fit to lead the foray.

The sheep now commonly shows himself to be the keenest and wariest of North American big game.

He was not afraid of being dull, or of boring her, but he was afraid of wakening against him the wary watchfulness of that side of her nature which he called Margaret Donne, as distinguished from Cordova, of the 'English-girl' side, of the potential old maid that is dormant in every young northern woman until the day she marries, and wakes to torment her like a biblical devil if she does not.

Your experience should have made you more wary.

But wonder should always be watched with a wary eye; for he is apt to bring in his train a hanger-on called worship, who can do nothing but mischief here.

When prices are falling the roles are reversed, and we are likely to see the sellers tumbling over one another in a frantic eagerness to sell, the buyers wary and aloof.

And if others, especially the philosophers by fire, who pretend to it, had been so wary in their observations, and sincere in their reports as those who call themselves philosophers ought to have been, our acquaintance with the bodies here about us, and our insight into their powers and operations had been yet much greater.

Possibly inquisitive and observing men may, by strength of judgment, penetrate further, and, on probabilities taken from wary observation, and hints well laid together, often guess right at what experience has not yet discovered to them.

We must be wary about calling in the Deus e machina of a volcano.

He now saw in his front the same active and wary adversary, prepared to bar the direct road to Richmond.

therefore, though most wary of it, is not querulous nor punctilious.

But he was wary, and subtle, and flexible.

His stern and wary policy was justified by its success, for by it he had recovered from the severe blow at Ohod, but it threatened to become his master and set its perpetual seal upon his life.

The young squire listened to the resounding hoof-beats as they grew more and more faint, and wondered as he fell asleep that one held to be so wary, so wise, so incredulous, should ride forth at midnight to meet a ghost in mail and plate.

Besides they are freed in this from many other infirmities, solitariness makes them more apt to contemplate, suspicion wary, which is a necessary humour in these times, [4074]Nam pol que maxime cavet, is saepe cautor captus est, "he that takes most heed, is often circumvented, and overtaken."

The head mullah, a wary grizzled old veteran, gives the orders.

"Be silent and wary, for there are sharp eyes on you....

I keep a wary eye on them and shift my seat at their approach.

The wariest rogue is never armed on all sides.

Six times his gossamery thread The wary spider threw; [Illustration: BRUCE BEHELD A SPIDER] In vain that filmy line was sped, For powerless or untrue Each aim appeared, and back recoiled The patient insect, six times foiled, And yet unconquered still; And soon the Bruce, with eager eye, Saw him prepare once more to try His courage, strength, and skill.

By the wary independence and aloofness of his dim forest life he preserves his intercourse with his native gods and is admitted from time to time to a rare and peculiar society with nature.

Not a moment was to be lost in imitating the example of the wary freebooters.

But the pirates were too wary to be misled, in this fashion.