The pass is narrow, walled in on each side by precipices of granite, and blocked up with bowlders and fallen trees, and beset with pitfalls in the roads ingeniously covered with fair-seeming moss.
These little paths are full of pitfalls among the roots and stones; and, nimble as the deer is, he sometimes breaks one of his slender legs in them.
But on her way to the city and to Mr. Powers' office she had been warily on her guard for snares and pitfalls tending swindlerwise, until she had fallen into the hands of Hannah.
These same pitfalls are the creation of your own free-will, and of your own free-will you must avoid them," said Eberstein decisively.
If you would only point out the pitfalls to both of us, doctor, we might avoid them.
In the domain of ethnography there were also many pitfalls and accidents.
Into the numerous hidden pitfalls horse and mules continually floundered with much discomfort and some danger to the riders.
Mindful of the holes and pitfalls in the path, we preferred to risk nothing, and walk the six miles to the village.
Standing at a window, he had caught from the storm a vague presage of perils and pitfalls approaching, through and around which he must be guide for another.
His eyes had been narrowed to see the pitfalls which lined his path, to the stumbling-blocks, the briers, the indescribable sordidness of his personal position and his immediate surroundings.
That a human being should be ordered to advance against such pitfalls and obstructions, and under the fire from the trenches and batteries, seemed sheer murder.
But no rehearsal would teach a man to avoid the pitfallsthat surround Verdun.
She was so young, and so exquisite, that Fate seemed harsh and cruel in darkening her vision, making pitfalls for her feet.
But for the time I escaped much deliberate falsehood, although I already saw, with a horrified prophetic eye, the awful pitfalls which lay before me.
As a young man, he was one for whom traps, snares, and pitfalls had never been set in vain.
Such are the pitfallsof the artistic temperament, moving amid unrealities, spinning its own cosmos.
Were the time to come, he said, when Russia might resume aggressive schemes on Turkey, he believed that neutralisation would mean nothing but a series of pitfalls much deeper than people expected.
The road up to power or influence in England is full of pitfalls and far too arduous for those who have neither high birth nor wealth to help them.
But we moderns are inclined to walk heedlessly, no longer believing in pitfalls or in the danger of gratified desires.
Heraldry is an intricate science, full ofpitfalls for the unwary, and demands an earnest study of its complex rules and regulations.
In such ways as this the technical pitfalls can be somewhat avoided by a designer who understands the method of the work.
The horses were brought and presently they were trailing away up the pathless slopes in the wake of the piebald pony; fording countless streams, leaping them, sinking in pitfalls through treacherous banks of bloom.
Finally, under the cliff, he halted, balanced nicely on a huge rocking slab, and inspected with suspicion the pitfalls before him.
All this was lighted dimly by one small window, high up in the unfinished wall and curtained by the bluff, and she saw a dozen pitfalls in the ruin, yawning for her baby's feet.
The pitfalls dug by the natives were so artfully concealed as to be very annoying, and even dangerous.
These lovers of God--these haters of men--looked upon the Greek marbles as unclean, and denounced the glories of Art as the snares and pitfalls of perdition.
These writers assumed that there was a kind of relation between rhyme and religion, between verse and virtue; and that it was their duty to call the attention of the world to all the snares and pitfalls of pleasure.
Milton sets everywhere his little pitfalls of bookish association for the memory.
Yet Voltaire, on his guard against these rhyming pitfalls for the sense, does not notice this in his minute comments on this play.
We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country--its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
He was glad to make his escape, for the sense of walking among hidden pitfalls was growing on him.
As an additional protection to their towns, they dig pitfalls on the trails leading to them, at the bottom of which sharp-pointed stakes are driven, the top of the hole being carefully covered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitfalls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
