In a little eddy given over to lily pads, a heron balanced on one leg and waited with poised bill for an unwary fish to venture near.
Perhaps the rattlesnake, dangerous only to the unwaryand the small creatures upon which it lived, was acting as a sort of guardian.
They also described how wires had been found in the shrubbery, evidently placed there to trip up unwary pursuers.
The stranger who would be so unwary as to take issue with him on this point would regret--if he lived.
With this view, quantities of a very sticky sweetmeat are prepared and presented as it were in sacrifice, on eating which the unwary god finds his lips tightly glued together, and himself unable to utter a single syllable.
One and all of them elements offering widespread popular parallels, and inviting the unwary critic into paths which lead him far astray from the goal of his quest, the Grail Castle.
Should, therefore, an unwary person place two inches of this second fuze in his jam tin by mistake, and light it, it will take exactly one-600th of a second before he gets to the motto.
As a consequence, any one who after this would still be the enemy of such a man, deserved to fall into worse repute than even the weak andunwary devils.
After all, what does it matter to you if he does deceive the unwary Indians?
This fellow, of desperate enterprize, is one of the numerous practitioners of knavery, who set themselves up for men of property and integrity, the more easily to defraud the unwary and ignorant out of their substance and effects.
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When the boat had passed on about an eighth of a mile, it tacked so suddenly and sharply that the unwary minister was rolled out upon the ice.
During this reign, when the house of commons were at any time brought to make unwary concessions to the crown they also showed their freedom by a speedy retractation of them.
She at once covered this unwary outbreak of jealousy under an impervious surface of compliment.
If one unwary word trips over her tongue, I shall pick it up!
His plan was always to spin a web like a spider and await the blundering flight of some unwary fly.
As the priest passes the dish to each row the official brings his metal-headed staff down upon the pavement with a noisy bang that is calculated to startle the unwary into dropping their money anywhere else than in the plate.
Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the injustice of believing in ME.
Sisyphus had never found any pleasure in life comparable to the delight of seeing his stone bound down-hill, and in so timing its rush as to inflict the greatest possible scare on any unwary shade who might be wandering below.
The rocks were low and for the most part jagged, with pools of water in the hollows between them for unwary or careless people to slip into.
Mollie noticed then that a narrow green ladder leant up against the smooth trunk; it looked as if an unwarystep would send it flying, and she put a reluctant foot on the lowest rung.
But the vultures and vampires of human society were slow in letting go their victims, and the Mounted Police had to be constantly on the watch to prevent the unwary and the foolish from being caught in their dens.
So talked the spirited sly Snake; and Eve, Yet more amazed, unwary thus replied.
There are so many ways in which the unwary may be "done," that many persons give up growing lilies from the constant disappointment which results from their ignorance of how to choose good, sound, flowering bulbs.
The squat and unwholesome hunter, who for years has infested the Rosenthal, still pursues his prey, in the shape of the unwary traveller, with perpetual impudence and importunity.
I was making for one of the larger hotels, at the door of which two waiters were waving napkins, as if to allure the unwary passenger--"not that way!
Perhaps she would not have woke up in a maze from a dream that was not less a dream because she was not sleeping even if some unwary utterance caused her to ask what manner of man this could be.
I was once so unwary as to mention my Fancy in relation to the new-fashioned Surtout before one of these Gentlemen, who was disingenuous enough to steal my Thought, and by that means prevented my intended Stroke.
