Or, it may be, that foolish extravagance consigns the imprudent lover to prison, and the young girl finds herself alone, abandoned, without the means of subsistence.
Adrienne has made it her business (imprudent as she is!
Many times have motives of interest or vengeance or perfidious machination led to the abuse of the imprudent facility with which inmates are received in certain private lunatic asylums from the hands of their families or friends.
The fact is, we are not practical people; we cannot adjust ourselves to circumstances, so we must be content to appear imprudent and unpatriotic.
He declared that if she did not pay him the sum of two hundred thousand francs before two days had expired, he would send the letters she had been so imprudent as to write him, to her husband.
George did not understand Puymirol's situation, but he realised that an imprudent answer might ruin him.
I wasimprudent enough to accuse myself, still, I am sure that you won't betray my confidence.
His body will not be identified, and the affair will be forgotten, providing we prevent any imprudent act calculated to revive it.
Puymirol bit his lip, but it was too late to retract this imprudent admission.
One can only appeal to his feelings, and invoke his pity for an imprudent woman.
As for the story about Madame de Lescombat, they thought it advisable to believe merely half of it; but even that was quite enough to make them pity the imprudentman who was about to place himself at the mercy of this wily widow.
He must be careful, at any rate, for animprudent word might ruin Puymirol.
Oh, thou wilt weep, imprudent maid, While lurking envious foes will smile, For all the follies thou hast said Of those who spoke but to beguile.
Miles confessed to himself with sadness that he had been imprudent to leave the bag where it would naturally excite the cupidity of any passing adventurer.
They might think it imprudent to invest all you had in that way; but we'll make money out of it yet, or I am sorely mistaken.
It was thoughtless and imprudent to venture out unarmed; but the scene was so quiet and peaceful that no thought of danger had entered the mind of our unlucky friend.
Senonches had undertaken such heavy engagements when they bought the house, that, in provincial fashion, they thought it imprudent to make any changes in it.
I have also known the mouth of the womb to be torn by the imprudent use of the forceps when not sufficiently dilated.
There can be no doubt that this imprudent conduct often brought on a retention of the placenta.
But if the Professor should be soimprudent as to cite us to the slave code for evidence of its merciful provisions, he will, in so doing, authorize us to cite him to that code for evidence of the nature of slavery.
The queen's behaviour had been extraordinarily imprudent from the very beginning.
I have no doubt that the whole of his imprudent tampering with Rome had been considerably influenced by this chimerical hope.
His imprudent connivance at popery, and the far more reprehensible encouragement given to it by his court, had sunk deep in the hearts of his people.
This cause, he is compelled to admit, in a passage too diffuse to be extracted, was the passionate and imprudent behaviour of the primate.
It sloped down towards the edge of the precipice, and its surface was so rugged and uneven that it was considered very imprudent to stand there, even in the day-time.
A neglected precaution, any insignificant detail, an imprudentword or gesture might ruin their ambitious hopes forever.
Owing partly to the circumstances of her time, partly to her own generous and warm-hearted but imprudent impulsiveness, she failed to win the affection of her adopted country as a whole, though she certainly earned its respect and esteem.
It is quite possible that she regarded the Minister's dismissal from office as an imprudent and even dangerous step.
Such an imprudent step, it may be imagined, seriously alarmed the Indians, as well as the English, and terminated in their active cooperation for the utter expulsion of the French from North America.
The Tories, while they supported the proposals of government, accused them of an imprudent indulgence and want of energy, which had emboldened the factious party to proceed to extremities.
Well, Ada, should Colonel Ormonde so far overcome his objection to me as to seek me again, I think it very likely I may say more imprudent things than I did last time.
His nature was disorderly, his education was imperfect, and, after futile attempts to obtain a degree in medicine or law, he made an imprudent marriage at the age of twenty, broke with his relatives and became a journalist.
The imprudent communications of Junot at the fountains of Messoudiah will be remembered, but, after the first ebullition of jealous rage, all traces of that feeling had apparently disappeared.
I represented to him especially that it would be imprudent to write to his brother with reference to a communication which was probably false.
Rash, imprudentand bad men had gotten into the order.
Rash and imprudent men--such as could not be confidently relied upon to respect their obligation to secrecy--were excluded.
Giddy and imprudent as I was, I shrunk from incurring this obligation to Lord Frederick.
Now, as it was certainly my duty, however painful, to procure assistance for poor Juliet, it would have been imprudent to pry into the reasons which might disincline me to the task.
The most imprudent being upon earth makes many a judicious resolution; and may trace his errors less to the weakness of his judgment, than to the feebleness of his self-command.
The room which Robert Audley surveyed was furnished with the shabbier scraps snatched from the ruin which had overtaken the imprudent schoolmistress in Crescent Villas.
What seemed an imprudent match (for his wife had nothing but a pale face, that had grown older and paler with long waiting) turned out a very lucky one for Newcome.
There he was attacked with imprudent haste by the army of the French.
He then crossed the Adriatic, He encountered Pompeius, who could not manage his imprudent officers, on the plain of Pharsalus (48 B.
But the imprudent Swede turned southward into the district of the Ukraine, there to be joined by Mazeppa, the "hetman" of the Cossacks, who led them in revolt against Peter.
And all these, and much more, follow the step you would inconsiderately take, an imprudent marriage.
I suppose the poor fellow had made an imprudent marriage, and, in plain English, gone to the bad.
As you say, it's a very good offer, financially, and I am afraid it would be very imprudent to refuse.
