Which preposition to use with caution
3 But even though this major step was accomplished successfully, Lefty Joe was not the man to abandon caution in the midst of an enterprise.
He, also, who first spoke the ancient proverb, Let sleeping dogs lie, did no more than voice the caution of the street.
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For the rest it was cunning against cunning, caution against skill, against quacking hordes of wild-fowl in the tulares, against pronghorn and bighorn and deer.
" I promised extra caution on the second point, and had just closed the lower doorAaron was already holding the gate open for mewhen the softly purplish bands of hair came again into the wind.
"I hope Mr. Effingham enjoys good health," he said, with some such caution as a rebuked school-girl enters on the recitation of her task"he enjoyed bad health I hear, (Mr. Aristabulus Bragg, though so shrewd, was far from critical in his modes of speech) when he went to Europe, and after travelling so far in such bad company, it would be no more than fair that he should have a little respite as he approaches home and old age.
The shock of it made Donnegan relax his caution for an instant, and in that instant she came into the reach of the light.
Mr. Heatherbloom whispered warningly in his excellency's free ear, emphasizing the caution with a significant pressure from his right hand.
"Hill is left locked up in the flat with the girl; for Birchill, who has just trusted him implicitly in a far more important matter affecting his own liberty, has a belated sense of caution about trusting his unworthy accomplice while he is away committing the burglary.
There are persons who, when in your company on a country walk, will steal apples, not with a decent caution from a tree along the fence, but far afield.
Being aware that we were now in the heart of the hostile country and that we might at any moment find more Indians than we had "lost," we advanced with more caution than usual, and kept a sharp lookout.
In his first campaign in Aetolia he had shown some of the rashness of youth, and had received a lesson of caution by which he profited throughout the rest of his career, but without losing any of his natural energy in enterprise or in execution.
" "Naow, be keerful, Cap'n Darby," the little mother-wife cautioned at the door, "be very keerful.
This disposition made, the captain and serjeant, first examining the priming of their pieces, moved with the necessary caution towards the edge of the wood-chopper's clearing.
Shalah slipped noiselessly backward, and I followed him down the scree slope, across the ravine, and then with infinite caution through the sparse woods till we had put a wide shoulder of hill between us and the enemy.
Is not a caution like this worthy of the Christian Perpetua or the Vestal Cornelia?
And I went now with an utter care; for the giants had put a new caution into my heart, and I did surely mean that I should live to rescue mine own Maid, and have joy through all my life.
" "Caution above all!
But when, peering through the improvised loophole, he next caught sight of his officer, Angus had emerged from the house by the cellar window, and was creeping with infinite caution behind the shelter of what had once been the wall of the estaminet's back-yard (but was now an uneven bank of bricks, averaging two feet high), in the direction of the German machine-gun.
Caution over a hard strip of the road, thenbigger things ahead.
After fifteen days sailing with great caution along an unknown coast, we got sight of a large town near an inlet or creek, which had the appearance of being the mouth of a river.
He exercised extreme caution until within a rod, when a twig snapped under his foot.
And in about an hour, after that we had harked very keen a time, we came downward again from the cave, and had our gear with us; and we came up out of the hollow, and set forward with a great caution unto the olden sea-bed.
Then the chaplain opened the gate, and they issued forth, moving with great caution down the lawn, towards the fleets.