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unwary
1. unwary that the water was so cold, you’d literally die of
2. These days, she mostly captures unwary visitors
3. Alex knew that the Christchurch police loved nothing more than lurking in the hedgerows, waiting to catch the unwary motorist, and he was determined that nothing would spoil his mood tonight
4. A little advice to the unwary would be in order
5. Or is it just the natural selection process that weeds out the unwary?
6. positions to the unwary
7. Many VC terrorist bombers set a secondary charge to go off within a minute or so of the first blast to catch the unwary still standing around
8. Unwary, ignorant, or suspicious boaters experienced the approach of lights, screaming sirens, armed Coast Guard helicopters and sea craft, and local police boats
9. I guarantee within two hours you’ll be their undisputed ‘lord’ and they your loyal henchmen, scouting through the forest, spying and setting traps for the unwary, learning about the stars, the land, their own strengths and their dependence on others…and I’m raving and repeating myself, aren’t I?’
10. Those had a nasty habit of cracking an unwary man’s skull and eating out their brains
11. He thundered along the road that followed the valley bed, labored up a slope, swept along a low ridge where treacherous shale on either hand lurked for the unwary, and came upon a trail that followed the lap of the left-hand wall
12. From that time on the parish priest began to show the signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without re-vealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary
13. In a town that had chafed under the tricks of the gypsies there was no future for those ambulatory acrobats of commerce who with equal effrontery offered a whistling kettle and a daily regime that would assure the salvation of the soul on the seventh day; but from those who let themselves be convinced out of fatigue and the ones who were always unwary, they reaped stupendous benefits
14. All the myriad black altar candles were lit, eerily flickering against statues of marble sphinxes, their outstretched lion paws waiting to pounce on unwary visitors
15. They are so well concerned with details that they become unwary
16. And thus it has come to pass that the 'veil is spread,’ the darkness thickens, and the unwary are beguiled on every side
17. "Thank you, I prefer spiders," she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death
18. which wait the inexperienced and unwary in it
19. He probably stole horses from unwary travellers, too, Merthin thought sourly
20. He was also quite a bit more intelligent than his unprepossessing physical appearance might lead the unwary to conclude, and his anxiety was obvious
21. 'When have I been hasty or unwary, who have waited and prepared for so many long years?' said Aragorn
22. ’Twas thus with an aching Heart that I watch’d the Gutter-Spouts drench the unwary Pedestrians who ran along, hugging the Wall, or, if they were jostl’d away from it, cov’ring their Heads as best they could with their Cloaks, for in those Days no Man would use an oil’d Umbrella for Fear of being thought Mollyish
23. I curst myself for being so unwary of her—for had I taken better Care, I might now be aboard that dashing Brig, the Hazard, with my beloved Lancelot
24. It must be recognized that there is something insidious about even a good convertible bond; it can easily prove a costly snare to the unwary
25. An unwary investor, looking at the two exhibits, might reject Company D’s 6% bonds as unsafe because their interest coverage was only 1
26. This phenomenon is caused by the desire of insiders to dispose of their holdings before the receivership wipes them out, thus accounting for a large supply of these shares at a low level and also sometimes for unscrupulous efforts to persuade the unwary public to buy them
27. An unduly high market price seems to have been established in 1927 for the small amount of Cigar Stores stock available in the market, and this high price was used to make Tobacco Products shares appear attractive to the unwary buyer
28. One is discipline: Don't deviate from the valuation standards, especially as the sirens of momentum are enticing the unwary
29. Sometimes there’s contact poison smeared on the blade, away from the edge to catch the unwary
30. However, at the worst point, the loss would be almost $200,000, or more than enough to decimate the accounts of the unwary
31. Gradually he became accustomed to the strange noises and the odd ways of civilization, so that presently none might know that two short months before, this handsome Frenchman in immaculate white ducks, who laughed and chatted with the gayest of them, had been swinging naked through primeval forests to pounce upon some unwary victim, which, raw, was to fill his savage belly
32. at least one can't call it frost, you can fancy, 150 degrees below zero! You know the game the village girls play—they invite the unwary to lick an ax in thirty degrees of frost, the tongue instantly freezes to it and the dupe tears the skin off, so it bleeds
33. Here is the pitfall! Again, a man off his guard, from an unwary disposition, may delight in mystifying another who suspects him, and may wantonly pretend to be the very criminal wanted by the authorities; in such a case, he will represent the person in question a little too closely, he will place his foot a little too naturally
34. Was it not for want of unanimity in support of the measure? Was it not in consequence of its having been wantonly, shamefully, and infamously violated? and perhaps winked at by some who are inimical to the principles of our Government; but who have had address and ingenuity sufficient to procure themselves to be appointed to office, and in which situation they have obtained a certain influence, and by misrepresentations as well as clamorous exertions have, in many instances, led the unwary astray, and caused the measure to become unpopular in some parts of the country? By improper representations and fallacious statements of certain prints, apparently, and I might add, undoubtedly, hostile to civil liberty and free Government, and advocates of British policy; by the baneful opposition of British agents and partisans, together with refugees or old tories, who still recollect their former abject standing, and who have never forgiven the American independence, and who, in all probability, are doing all in their power at this time to assist their master George the Third in bringing about colonization and vassalage in this happy land—by keeping up party spirit to such a height, that the tyrant of the ocean was led to believe that he had a most powerful British party in the bosom of our country—and that, by an extraordinary opposition made to the embargo, we would become restless, and could not adhere to a suspension of commerce—consequently would have to relax, and fall into paying tribute, under the Orders of Council, to that corrupt Government, Britain
35. As to the other act, it was passed no less for the benefit of the community than the bank—to protect the ignorant and unwary from counterfeit paper, purporting to have been emitted by the bank
36. Finding, after this gross violation of every principle which ought to govern honest and honorable nations, that our merchants, taught by sad experience that there was no safety within the range of his power, would venture there no more, he found it necessary to throw out another lure to entice the unwary within his reach
37. "The presence of a Negro priest of pure lineage, born a slave, ordained at Rome, Augustus Tolton—the property of Stephen Elliot, as the record stands in the Vatican—the appearance of Cardinal Gibbons in his official robes to sanction the meeting, his eloquent reference to the universality of the Church of Rome that 'knows neither North, South, East or West; that knows neither Jew nor Gentile, Greek, Barbarian nor Scythian,' may mislead the unwary as to the real object of the movement
