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Sentences ending with precarious

But the lives of gentlemen devoted to such pleasures as Richard Swiveller, are extremely precarious. [12]
You should take caution and be precarious. [5]
Predictions are precarious. [9]

More example sentences with the word precarious in them

It is he who has brought the Empire to its most precarious state. [9]
Some households there were, indeed, which maintained a precarious though seemingly miraculous footing on the surface, or near it, going under for mere brief periods, only to rise again and flaunt men-servants in the face of Providence. [9]
Its author continued to win a more or less precarious livelihood doing miscellaneous work, until March, 1866, when he was employed by the Sacramento Union to contribute a series of letters from the Sandwich Islands. [5]
On the right the house was separated from its neighbour by a narrow interval, giving but a precarious light to the two middle rooms, the diningroom and kitchen. [9]
Their control of the country rested upon force; the stability of the Diaz rule, for instance, depended upon the "President's" ability to maintain his dictatorship--a precarious guarantee to the titles he had given. [9]
He crushed the telegrams into a tighter ball, sought for a footing, and found a precarious one. [9]
But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter. [9]
Mrs. Clemens, in spite of her frail health, devoted much time to her dying friend, until by the time the end came she was herself in a precarious condition. [5]
Writing is a rather precarious thing these times. [5]
This was the precarious state of his health, far poorer then than it was in subsequent years. [4]
In 1889 the precarious state of his health forced him to resign his chair at the university. [10]
It is a precarious kind of property, too; a succession of total eclipses would probably ruin this tavern. [5]
I understand your position, Isabel, and that you're really acting from a generous impulse, but there's nothing so precarious at our time of life as a generous impulse. [8]
In the fulness of time Slade's myrmidons captured his ancient enemy Jules, whom they found in a well-chosen hiding-place in the remote fastnesses of the mountains, gaining a precarious livelihood with his rifle. [5]
My time has now gone by; and I have growing claims upon my thoughts and upon my means, slender and precarious as they are. [4]
An occasional hooded lamp throws a precarious gleam on a long line of men carrying--so gently--stretchers on which lie the silent forms of rich and poor alike. [9]
He would not, however, have dared to hold her hand on any other occasion, while always wanting to hold it, and wanting her also to share his not wholly reputed, though far from precarious, existence. [11]
Most of them had gone out, with their families, into that precarious border-land of existence in which the to-morrows are ever dreaded. [9]
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. [9]
This is a fig-tree, which maintains a precarious footing among the rocks at the mouth of the dismal cavern once occupied by the veritable Witch of Endor. [5]
She put it down to a moodiness over the loss of her white herd and the now precarious condition of her fortune. [13]
She had no choice between her present precarious foothold and the abyss, and wounded as she was she would have to fight. [9]
I could not but regard her with deep interest, knowing what important concerns depended upon the life of this fragile little being, and to what a stormy and precarious career she might be destined. [4]
But, despite the best intentions, circumstances and environment, as well as the precarious situation of her empire, prevented her from liberalizing her foreign relations to conform with the growth of democracy within the United Kingdom and the Dominions. [9]
Germany and her associates have the advantage of interior lines, of a single dominating and purposeful leadership, while our five big nations, democracies or semi-democracies, are stretched in a huge ring with precarious connections on land, with the submarine alert on the sea. [9]
She was stirred anew to anger and revolt against a life so precarious and sordid as to be threatened in its continuity by the absurd failure of a stove, when, glancing at her sister, she felt a sharp pang of self-conviction, of self-disgust. [9]
As yet I am extremely irregular and precarious in my fits of composition. [4]
Sherman seemed for a while to be in a precarious position before Atlanta. [7]

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