He hastily scrambled up the cliff, meanwhile keeping an anxious eye upon the goat, for a single misstep would have landed her in the abyss below.
This isn't a very safe place, and a misstep would take you to the surface by the route I followed two weeks ago.
It was not a comfortable place to stand, for a misstep would precipitate him down the sloping end of the ore dump to the ground some forty feet below.
The ponies were obliged to pick their way over rocks, around sharp, narrow corners, where the slightest misstep would send horse and rider crashing to the rocks hundreds of feet below.
A slight misstep at any point, or an unfortunate slip would be liable to let my foot drop in between two of these rocks and throw me in such a way as to break a leg, an arm, or possibly my head.
She was riding on a loose rein, giving her horse his head, for she realized that to force him might mean a misstep and a fall.
She laughed aloud, and urged her horse down the steep descent, heedless of the fact that upon the precarious, loose rock footing of the slope, a misstep would mean almost certain destruction.
A single misstep would have meant a horrible plunge into the roaring rapids below.
A single misstepwould have meant a terrible fall to the bottom of the canyon.
That ignorance or the onemisstep has led thousands to a permanent life of shame; 4.
That a single sexual misstep has ruined thousands upon thousands of girls' lives; 3.
A misstep or a stumble on the part of my steed, and probably the first bubble of my confidence would have been shivered at once; but this did not happen, and in due time we reached the group of tents that formed the President's camp.
They're like a juggler's rope, On which a misstepplunges from the heights, And every stumbling makes a butt for jest.
Only, from time to time a horse makes a misstep on this hill--just one little slip--and spins down in backward somersets a thousand feet.
No one at his age that is not crazy or foolish would prowl about at the very edge of the river here, where a misstep means almost certain death.
That a terrible tragedy had occurred Merry was certain, but whether a human being had fallen from the mountain by some misstep or had been hurled to his doom he could not say.
Franz studied the awful wall that suddenly seemed a thousand feet high, and where a mistake in judgment or a misstep meant possible death and certain injury.
Each time we go down to a rest house, we face an entirely different landscape, where a misstep might well mean death to us and those we guide.
The first reason why sex instruction is even more important for girls than it is for boys is because a misstep in a girl has much more disastrous consequences than it has in a boy.
A person's entire character does not depend upon the presence or absence of the hymen, and one misstep should not ruin a person's whole life.
The enormous difference in the results of a misstep in a boy and a girl is clearly seen, and for this reason alone, if for no other, sex instruction is of more importance to the girl than it is to the boy.
The disastrous results of a misstep in a boy are only physical in character; the results of the same misstep in a girl may be physical, moral, social and economic.
But if a girl makes a misstep the consequences to her are terrible indeed; it may not only cost her her health and social standing, she may have to pay with her very life.
Down Mount Franklin and over the narrow path cut in the cragged side of Monroe, where a single misstep would hurl the horse and rider down a fathomless abyss, into whose depths the eye dares hardly for a moment gaze.
Sometimes their feet lighted on a sharp projection, or by a misstep they fell among the stony piles, bruising and wrenching their flesh and bones.
Once those in the rear saw the rascal ahead make a misstep and plunge downward.
A misstep would have sent us flying over the cliff, but I did not think of that--my only care was not to startle the shy fleet-footed creatures we were pursuing.
He uttered a short laugh, for it had suddenly occurred to him that the world would present a wondrous chaos of bloodshed and murder, if every similar misstepwere to produce like result.
It was now clear to him that the real cause of his misstep lay in the fact that a third person had stood between him and his wife.
You've seen, to-day, how every misstep of yours draws reproof on me.
A misstep upon an icy flag-stone had resulted in a sprained ankle, and for that there was no remedy but patience.
At places our way is along shelves so narrow or so sloping that I ache with fear lest a pony should make a misstep and knock a man over the cliffs with him.
It is curious how a little obstacle becomes a great obstruction when a misstepwould land a man in the bottom of a deep chasm.
One must walk cautiously among these boiling mud-pits, open springs, and steam-holes; a misstep might prove instantly fatal.
