The best ways of avoiding these pitfalls have also been indicated.

The door-sill was high, and we stepped over it on to a stone floor, the flagging of which was sunken in many places, causing pitfalls to the unwary.

She was, moreover, in a very difficult position, for Priam had positively forbidden her to have any speech with solicitors' clerks or with solicitors, and thus Crepitude knew not what pitfalls for him her evidence might contain.

He eluded the pitfall.

I could not grope about me with my hands, for they were tied, and I knew not what pitfall my feet might find.

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

I knew the sentries along the way returning, but I knew not the pitfalls for me if I remained in Liege.

Without the slightest difficulty he leaped that pitfall of the drunken, the letter L. "Luke," repeated Racey Dawson, struck by a sudden thought.

At last I had my desire, for making pitfalls and traps baited with barley and rice, I found one morning, in one of them, an old he-goat, and in the other three kids, one male, the other two females.

Their second aim was to point out the pitfalls that lay in the path of the inexperienced, and to save them from moral wreck by inspiring within them right ideals and ambitions.

But a study of his two years of rule fails to reveal any pitfall in his pathway into which he did not straightway stumble.

He that endeavours to live for the good of others, must always be exposed to the arts of them who live only for themselves, unless he is taught by timely precepts the caution required in common transactions, and shewn at a distance the pitfalls of treachery.

It has smashed itself three feet deep and more, a pitfall for horse and rider, a trap to the unwary.

She is simply afraid of the future, and instinctively suspects pitfalls even in good fortune.

Behind them lay the labyrinth, with what pitfalls none could tell and with the Jannati Shahr men perhaps already penetrating into the crypt.

At length I resolved to try a pitfall: so I dug several large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over those pits I placed hurdles, of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley and dry rice, without setting the trap; and I could easily perceive that the goats had gone in and eaten up the corn, for I could see the marks of their feet.