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Example sentences for "more prudent"

  • I deemed it more prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any search after him by his adoptive father--the carpenter Wood.

  • I presume she thought it would be more prudent, in the case of any interruption.

  • When sufficiently restored to be able to speak, the account she gave was, that she had set out to meet her father; but the storm increasing, she had thought it more prudent to turn.

  • I think, however, if you approve, uncle, that it will be more prudent to keep a little watch over the riding for a while.

  • Summoned either to surrender or to defend himself, he deemed it more prudent to negotiate.

  • Runjeet Singh entered Peshawur in triumph; but thought it more prudent to divide the territory between Dost Mahomed and Sultan Mahomed, than to occupy it on his own account, and rule in his own name.

  • For these reasons Elizabeth thought it more prudent not to reject all commerce with the French monarch, but still to listen to the professions of friendship which he made her.

  • Instead of employing in our defence the fictions of later ages, it will be more prudent to convert the occasion of scandal into a subject of edification.

  • The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honorable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians.

  • Bowse, and so fine a crew as his; but at the same time he thought it would be more prudent to let him know what he had seen, and urge him to be on his guard against the speronara.

  • Fa Fei, thinking it more prudent not to recognize that he had learned of their meeting-place and concealing himself there had awaited their coming, "when your absence was discovered a heaven-sent inspiration led me to this spot.

  • As we had now however marched thirty-one miles without seeing water, and were all perfectly worn out, I judged it more prudent to halt where we were.

  • There are many cases where it is more prudent to put up a goods-shed in timber than to incur the cost of one of more permanent character.

  • I will be more prudent," he answered, in a low voice.

  • Waldemar would listen to the warning, whether he guessed from whom it was sent or not; he had promised to be more prudent, and he was well enough acquainted with the temper of the people.

  • Still Deane thought it more prudent to fill his sails, and to stand away towards the opening which he took to be the mouth of the river of which he was in search.

  • But probably Jack's appearance made the highwayman, if such he was, think it more prudent to allow the travellers to pass unquestioned.

  • He thought it more prudent to send as his deputy Valerius Procillus, the son of a Gaul who had become a Roman citizen, who spoke the Celtic language, and who was on familiar terms with Ariovistus, and M.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beaten yolk; est tout; more absurd; more accurate; more advantageous; more agreeable; more beautiful; more children; more clearly; more commonly; more complete; more correct; more easy; more elaborate; more extended; more inclined; more interesting; more nearly; more persons; more positive; more rapidly; more rows; more slowly; more than; more things; provide for