How To Use Carious In A Sentence

He balanced precariously on the narrow window - ledge.
They eke out a precarious existence .
The economy is precariously close to recession.
China's economy is precariously balanced on a mountain of debt. Times, Sunday Times
The reader of adventure stories wants romance and vicarious excitement.

The carriage teetered precariously as he moved to take a seat opposite her and they stared at each other in a calming silence as she drank, but once she finished, the cup fell from her loose fingers and clattered loudly on the floor.
However, a closer look at the tissue of the dream reveals the most precarious of balances between the concerns of the individual and those of the family and community.
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall. Harsh winter predictions
The museum is in a financially precarious position.
I could see them together and, in that act of seeing, experienced vicarious comfort. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
What makes the Jack Flash sequences arguably escapist is not just their gaucheness but the vicarious thrill of his anti-establishment rebellion. Essay Rant Thingy
They get a vicarious thrill from watching motor racing.
To repair any damage Rhoda has done to her already precarious identity as a good little girl, Rhoda initiates a game that she and her mother have obviously played before.
The first carries the dual carriageway A4041 with a street light balanced precariously above the centre of the canal.
But Mr. Mubarak's language and refusal to yield to what he called the intervention of foreigners left protesters furious, the scene in Cairo precarious and the White House seemingly unable to influence events. Crisis Puts White House in Disarray
Next in potency are what Bandura calls vicarious experiences, in which the individual sees others coping successfully with similar problems. Planned Short-Term Treatment
They sit precariously on top of one another on a square of unpainted plywood around which are scattered little metal balls of varying sizes.
As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel. Roy and His Rock
The employers were not vicariously liable for his negligence.
The train is not only faster and cleaner, but with an operating sound output of 0.1dB, is also significantly quieter than buses or the precarious three wheeled tuk-tuks.
This year's Budget looks set to be a precarious high-wire act for the Chancellor.
Pierced by curves and angles of thin metal, the precarious, canted structure is poised on elegant little wheels. The Artist in All His Dimensions
47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
If the hirer were to give a specific order he would be responsible for harm resulting from negligent execution of the order, but he would be liable as a principal, not vicariously.
In the novel, a decent man, having made a "devil's bargain," finds himself on that precarious border between personal love and social responsibility.
This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
vicarious menstruation
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
The soil of these plains was a stiff tenacious clay, and had every appearance of being frequently under water: as we were now in the parallel of the spot where the river divided into branches, the altered appearance of the country induced us to hope that we should shortly fall in with some permanent water, and be relieved from the constant anxiety attendant on the precarious supply to which we had lately been enured. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
On the level of form, you share mortality and the precariousness of existence.
No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
Yes indeed I enjoyed horses vicariously and occasionally even pretended to be Jill and set up a few jumps in the garden and did a bit of giddy-up neddy trotting around my own gymkhana. Such stuff as dreams are made on...
Durham's recent experience has brought home the reality of the precarious situation around the first-class game. Times, Sunday Times
The path down to the beach is very precarious in wet weather.
Without a political settlement any truce in Bosnia remains precarious.
What a precarious existence we have had as a nation! Times, Sunday Times
A pink pillar-box hat was perched precariously on her head, and pinned to its side was a large artificial purple flower.
She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.
Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
But with 29 low-rent housing units above them, they would need to evict individuals already in precarious financial situations in order to expand.
Irving can't conceal his vicarious delight in this unconsummated passion, ‘which remained a crush, at room's length, no more’.
Becoming Speaker of the House of Commons is happily no longer so precarious, but it certainly has its difficulties.
In the end, due to the meagerness of both our resources and our carpentry skills, we settled on a balance constructed of wood and a precariously balanced wire hanger.
Yet, curiously, it is a secondary, indirect, and vicarious experience.
Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving.
The horn of the wall must be removed, and the diseased structures, whether gangrenous keratogenous membrane, necrosed ligament, or carious bone, carefully excised or curetted. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
Here are the final 15 words competitors were asked to spell at the Camera Regional Spelling Bee. vicariously propellable surrealist cosmetician duncical plummet absolution comandante roodebok dachshund egregious archipelago Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
She is a sad, lonely career girl whose financial precariousness makes her a highly suggestible young lady who will clearly do almost anything for a sawbuck.
The economic precariousness forced a substantial number of men to leave for distant lands as migrant workers.
The summer-shoot may be recognized, during growth, by its green, not scarious bracts and, at the end of the season, by the imperfect growth of its wood and foliage (fig. 14). The Genus Pinus
We spotted an old man precariously perched on top of a pile of rubble, searching for something.
The owner was held vicariously liable for the negligence of the driver.
The first two seasons set up an expectation that you'd be seeing people getting whacked every episode, and a lot of badass mob stuff - the kind of thing certain people can live vicariously through.
According to photographer and friend of Irons, Art Brewer, the surf industry is unique not because of the presence of drugs, but because it is in the precarious process of distancing itself from a stereotypical drugged-out image. Tetsuhiko Endo: Demystifying the Death of Andy Irons
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. The Mountebank
And it is only when this illusion is created in the theatre, that it is possible for the public to enjoy that vicarious experience of life, to furnish which is the one great function of the drama. Our Responsibility to the English Speaking Theatre
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle today survives precariously in remote regions.
The stage resembled an oblong squash court with seating perched precariously on scaffolding above the set.
A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging. Kamikaze Birdsongs
the original plan, and set forth warily to sample vicarious parenthood. AN OLDER WOMAN
Through such experiences and spectacles, the modern, detached, moderate rationality of the narrator, and often the hero, is linked to a restored sensorial excitement, as the novel connects the reader vicariously to a passional self momentarily free from habitual restraint (although in practice, still carefully insulated from any action that would seriously offend conventional proprieties). Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set. Times, Sunday Times
The stage is set up with various precarious devices, boxes and hanging sheets. Times, Sunday Times
And their future looks more precarious when the troops go home. Times, Sunday Times
A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
Turkey is quite precarious anyway,' she says. Times, Sunday Times
Vicariously, through their family snapshots, which he processes and greedily copies for himself, Sy gets his fix of the picture-perfect family.
Which is shelter from competition, the tax man and most of all, "precariousness" of any kind. Berlusconi Is Back
The winter-bud is an aggregate of minute buds, each concealed in the axil of a primary leaf converted into a scarious, more or less fimbriate, bud-scale. The Genus Pinus
The pockets of the farmers, on the other hand, will reluctantly yield but scanty supplies, in the unwelcome shape of impositions on their houses and lands; and personal property is too precarious and invisible a fund to be laid hold of in any other way than by the imperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.
We can see clearly the essence of despotism and the precarious nature of democracy.
Barbie wore only her clear pink heels, her defiance untempered by her precarious stance on a white Lexus convertible. Bye-bye Love
But if in their case the bones do not sphacelate (become carious?) and if they do not become bent above the hip-joint, if nothing of this kind happen to them, they become otherwise sufficiently healthy, but the growth of all the rest of the body, with the exception of the head, is arrested. On The Articulations
The sea sighs at the feet of the cliffs where fulmars and kittiwakes are sitting hopefully on nests precariously wedged into the narrowest of crevices. Times, Sunday Times
My upper body wavered precariously and my eyes watered as I caught sight of the drop below.
The villagers cook on open fires with precariously balanced pots, which result in many scalds and burns.
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
Labour backbenchers precariously hanging on to marginal seats began to stir.
Black vultures choose less precarious rocky perches on which to nest but join the lammergeiers on the thermals in their quest for food.
From there a path twists its way through outcropping crags and tiny lochans to the summit, perched precariously on top of its own little crag.
vicarious atonement
But only in that precarious exilic realm can one first truly grasp the difficulty of what cannot be grasped, and then go forth to try anyway.
Now it seemed she needed more time to set her bearings each morning, to remember the feeling of soaring, even if it came vicariously from a silly pair of geese. 2008 May « Becca’s Byline
The horse thus vicariously fulfilling the functions of a plate of soup was a wretched glandered beast -- not old, but shunned on account of the contagious nature of his disease. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
But to the population in these areas it will feel increasingly precarious,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
A major problem with Wright is that, if he does hold to Christ's vicarious atonement, he believes Christ died for and will save all men.
Flying into this Himalayan Shangri-La, I was immediately struck by the world's highest unclimbed mountain, the exquisite temples perched precariously on cliffs, the friendly and handsome people adorned in traditional silk attire, and a healthy dose of wafting incense and chanting mantras. Chip Conley: The Happiest Place on the Planet?
They hauled the fish on board - this time I was up on the cabin top filming - a somewhat precarious perch as a stiff wind had sprung up and the boat was rocking quite wildly.
And he explained her precarious situation too, that she was envied and spied on because her brother was fond of her and that many considered her tainted with her mother's promiscuousness and conniving, hoped to use that to make her father reject her. Ill Met By Moonlight
Anything out of the ordinary could arouse her from her precarious slumber.
Somewhere, enormous losses have been suffered, with recent mark-to-market declines in Credit derivatives seriously compounding an already precarious situation.
Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set. Times, Sunday Times
They were always careful not to saw away the branch upon which their own livelihood was precariously, if tenaciously, hanging.
The getaway by bus goes smoothly until an accident sends the vehicle into a skid, leaving it dangling precariously over the edge of a cliff. Times, Sunday Times
Today – as it was generations ago – tuxedoed waiters flit around tables, precariously balancing countless Viennese coffee varieties and trademark yeast dumplings on silver trays. Leopold Hawelka, luminary of Viennese cafe culture, dies aged 100
Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
He balanced the glass precariously on the arm of his chair.
The teenager and his ageing parents grow a small amount of rice but depend almost entirely on two buffaloes to maintain their precarious existence.
One of my grocery bags was still precariously perched on the car bumper.
Webb's sister was connected with the former Pali Lanes operation, so Webb was around it "vicariously," he said, while Darling had no prior connection to the lanes, but has expertise in small business management. Starbulletin Headlines
This precarious financial position is largely because footballers are the most successful workers in the land. Times, Sunday Times
She teetered precariously before moving once again to position her feet solidly on the ground.
In fact, much of the album was pieced together on a laptop perched precariously on packing boxes. Times, Sunday Times
But his grasp on life was precarious and my mother's quality of life as a full-time carer was practically nonexistent. Times, Sunday Times
The guys tapped on their heels, balanced precariously and even attempted a few body flips.
A sharp rise in contractual obligations could, de facto, wipe out his precarious autonomy.
But life here is precarious and has been for as long as anyone can remember. Times, Sunday Times
Some of these projects were killed by a company's precarious financial standing or poor prevailing economic conditions. Times, Sunday Times
What a precarious existence we have had as a nation! Times, Sunday Times
This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhismthe Rome of Asiais interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats. § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
Its financial position has been precarious and the recent sale of land for house building was essential to survive. Times, Sunday Times
You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.
On the other hand the present situation is precarious. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
His was a vicarious death, both sacrificial (for sin) and substitutionary (for the sinner).
Their protest was vicarious hobbyism. Times, Sunday Times
Treatment includes an oral examination, cleaning, topical fluoride application, restoration of carious teeth, pulp therapy, and, when necessary, tooth extraction.
For the next six years I learned to live the way the rest of the world lives, on credit and a precariously balanced checkbook.
She had passed through the Empire, she had lived through a siege, had rubbed shoulders with the Commune, had seen everything, no doubt, of what men are capable in the pursuit of their desires or in the extremity of their distress, for love, for money, and even for honour; and in her precarious connection with the very highest spheres she had kept her own honourability unscathed while she had lost all her prejudices. The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes
The Royal Scots, the army's oldest regiment, is on precarious ground.
The neighbourhood is looking particularly precarious as summer approaches. Times, Sunday Times
I like my chips open or wrapped, with a crisp wedge of battered cod perched precariously on top.
It gives the band an ability to loose the reigns and do something that precariously walks the line between excitement and embarrassment.
Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
They made their way over, wavering precariously, and collapsed at his feet.
She leaned precariously out of the window.
But quite a few clubs are in a precarious position. The Sun
If one is fortunate enough to be associated with a university, even as one ages, teaching allows one to contribute to, and vicariously share, in the creativity of youth.
The land is let on lease for terms as long sometimes as sixty-four years, and is sometimes underlet at greatly increased prices to the ultimate tenants, whose precarious condition brings the "head" landlord into undeserved odium. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
There's also a stonking good sword fight, in which furniture gets overturned, weapons are scooped up on the fly and the combatants find themselves thrusting and parrying while perched precariously up in the rafters.
Mary Mara makes the volatile Ruth a mainspring of precarious tension, capable of a solitary three-way argument over a peanut-butter sandwich.
Unions have complained that some workers have been forced to become self-employed to accept precarious jobs on low pay. Times, Sunday Times
At that point WPC Norton was perched precariously on a rickety chair in an attempt to inspect the top of the wardrobe. WIDOW'S END
Salcedo was interested in the precarious nature of the materials, the fragility of the hair.
Even if programmatically attractive, this is a precariously fragile hypothesis.
You have a wide circle of devoted buddies and admirers, and you take vicarious pleasure in their successes and accomplishments while inspiring your friends with your own passion for life.
The game opened up and the home side 's superiority shone through against a club in a precarious league position. Times, Sunday Times
Assyria's decline -- the change whereby she passed from the assailer to the assailed, from the undisputed primacy of Western Asia to a doubtful and precarious position. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
Of course, my general tendency during these moments is to immediately share the moment- to let someone else live vicariously through me, which usually includes calling the landlocked parental units, who allow me to spill my excitement without getting too annoyed. Sunday Seals | Seattle Metblogs
But now they have gone out on such precarious limbs their positions are clearly untenable.
What a precarious existence we have had as a nation! Times, Sunday Times
We find intelligence and life spooky because they maintain a precarious state far from equilibrium.
You remember how precarious the company was after your father and grandfather died.
The old pirate enjoyed every minute of that too - what a way to get vicarious thrills! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
I felt sure the gum on the precarious trap would catch the mouse tonight.
The suits are elegant, the hair high and the décolletages so precariously low that you know there's been a run on double-sided tape.
I think if people are feeling sad or depressed or what we call vicarious traumatization, so that somebody else is traumatized and you vicariously experience the symptoms of post traumatic distress disorder, or acute stress disorder, then you need to talk to others for support, for counsel. CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2007
It is an acrobatics of raw and precarious sprezzatura. The Times Literary Supplement
Shooting out lights, opening and closing doors and leaping to precarious positions are all part of the game.
Together, they have scaled the stony scramble of Stirrup Crag at Yewbarrow, hit the heights of Helvellyn twice and negotiated the precarious pathway of Striding Edge.
Wells was well aware of the precariousness of human life.
The cases show that where an employer undertakes the care of a client's property and entrusts the task to an employee who steals the property, the employer is vicariously liable.
In view of our precarious position and the lives of men in jeopardy, I sent this evening an aerogram to H.M. King George asking for a relief ship. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
It's an island where isolated villages cling precariously to crags, wild boar snuffle for food and bees grow drunk on the nectar from the maquis - the fragrant scrub that cloaks the island's ancient bones.
When I advanced my long-held theory that some of his constituents were living vicariously through his exploits, Wilson readily agreed.
But we come now to a matter which, to most minds, will be more remote and more difficult; viz., to the fact, that God has not only a character ever lastingly perfected in right, but that, by the same law, he is held to a suffering goodness for his enemies, even to that particular work in time, which we call the vicarious sacrifice of Christ. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
The film captures the precariousness of an addict's sobriety.
Her suitcase was precariously balanced on the tiny luggage rack above her head.
The tide is going out and there are plenty of rocks to turn over, and after only 10 minutes, the youngest, precariously balanced on a boulder near the jetty, calls us over excitedly. Diary of a separation
We found that treatment based on performance mastery produces higher, more generalized, and stronger efficacy expectations than treatment based on vicarious experience alone.
And as a result, he doesn't squander the talents of his cast, throwing in plenty of personality clashes and in-house stand-offs that serve to heighten the precarious nature of Roenick's predicament.
His mind had been suppled by years of precarious survival; now it took one of those leaps which had saved him in places tighter than this. Funeral Games
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
What the optimists sometimes ignore is the often precarious role of technology in keeping humanity fed. Times, Sunday Times
Ice Cube is precariously balanced between entertainment and polemic.
As he travels to Mount Doom with the hobbits, Sam and Frodo, their relationship becomes more precarious.
There were even curraghs, composed of ox hides stretched over hoops of willow, in the manner of the ancient British, and some committed themselves to rafts formed for the occasion, from the readiest materials that occurred, and united in such a precarious manner as to render it probable that, before the accomplishment of the voyage, some of the clansmen of the deceased might be sent to attend their chieftain in the world of spirits. The Fair Maid of Perth
I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
The shoulder can be put into a precarious position during the recovery and entry periods of the crawl and butterfly strokes.
She is clutching at the grass, precariously hanging over the cliff and screaming as crumbling rocks fall to the water below.
When I am walking in a crowded room, especially while carrying a spillable object in my hands balanced above other precariously situated object, and some rude motherchicken decides to bump into me, spill my long-anticipated tasty lunch on the ground, and then continue on his bumbling way, I should be able to sentence that person to eternal damnation. Bluemeany Diary Entry
Despite the precarious position of the oil market, financial markets remain extraordinarily sanguine in regard to the prospects of another major oil shock.
Far beyond elementary school, in the broader southern white culture I grew up in, there was an odd exultancy about Appomattox that had nothing to do with vicarious relief at the end of that brutal war. THE NEWS BLOG
In Congress, the word sidecar doesn't call up images of a one-wheeled device precariously attached to a motorcycle — but it's a risky vehicle all the same. A Bumpy Ride
She had six children from her first marriage when widowed, and made a precarious living as a travelling saleswoman.
This may be symptomatic of some inflammatory condition in the vicinity, such as a pyogenic affection of the lower jaw -- for example, that associated with a carious root or an unerupted wisdom tooth, or with parotitis or tonsillitis. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
He earned a precarious living as an artist.
The hero will undergo various struggles in which you, the viewer, will be able to vicariously enjoy his stoicism while, of course, undergoing no pain.
With that high center of gravity you're twice as likely as some putz in a Pontiac to tip precariously onto two wheels.
The treaty was now dead and Britain's influence became more precarious though it persisted for another decade. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
A gripping and ultimately enduring release borne of a timeless song craft and precariously married to a deeply maddening anxious hurt.
Thousands of rare Australian animals, such as endangered numbats and long-nosed potoroos, face a precarious future as a company set up to ensure their survival faces extinction itself.
I would think too of that other war which is as old as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competition; the toil of seventy years, dear-bought bread, precarious honour, the perils and pitfalls, and the poor rewards. Memories and Portraits
Mr. Mubarak's language and refusal to yield to what he called the intervention of foreigners — a reference that appeared directed primarily at the U.S. — left protesters furious and the situation in Cairo precarious. Mubarak Deepens Crisis
And though it is true that every age considers the world to be in a precarious state, at the very edge of dark, nevertheless Ada and Inman doubted if at any foretime in history the sense of an ending was as justified as it had been then. Cold Mountain
The situation was becoming increasingly precarious. Times, Sunday Times
_punish_ sin while at the same time He _pardons_ it, -- can punish it in the Substitute while He pardons it in the sinner, -- it is not until he is enabled to apprehend the doctrine of _vicarious_ atonement, that his doubts and fears respecting the possibility and reality of the Divine mercy are removed. Sermons to the Natural Man
And Jennifer Klein, professor of history at Yale University, adds that women often work in "precarious" jobs with irregular hours and low benefits. Bryce Covert: The Other Side of the 'Mancession': Women Left Behind
The other men had come and hastily put a roof on, but the cabin as a whole reminded Roger of nothing so much as a pile of giant jackstraws, poised precariously on the side of the mountain and obviously only awaiting the next spring flood to slide down the mountain after its builder. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The suits are elegant, the hair high and the décolletages so precariously low that you know there's been a run on double-sided tape.
This year's Budget looks set to be a precarious high-wire act for the Chancellor.
At the same time, a number of authors suggest that vulnerability to vicarious traumatization arises through that very experience of awareness.
If that is where you are this morning, your position is very precarious.
The drawbridge was the precarious ground of many a midnight strife, till the daring gallantry of Nigel Bruce became the theme of every tongue; a gallantry equalled only by the consummate skill which he displayed, in retreating within his entrenchments frequently without the loss of a single man either as killed or wounded. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
Washington struck me as a precarious place from which to publish such a cerebral newspaper.
Practitioners were skilled in restoring carious teeth with gold and replacing missing teeth with false ones.
M'Iver, who was the first to take watch for the night, paced back and forth along the lobbies or stood to warm himself at the fire he fed at intervals with peat or pine-root Though he had a soldier's reverence for the slumbers of his comrades, and made the least of noises as he moved around in his deer-skins, the slightest movement so advertised his zeal, and so clearly recalled the precariousness of our position, that I could not sleep. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

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