Wariness had been born into her blood--therefore she could understand and meet halfway the wariness of another.
With the infinite wariness of her race she waited to see what he would do; to read, if she might, what were his thoughts--his attitude toward her in his unguarded moments.
Rather he was so boiling with rage that his wonted wariness forsook him completely.
She wanted to begin his education in all the wariness which is so necessary for the creatures of the wild in approaching the works and haunts of man.
The king made this sudden movement more from habitual wariness than any settled object, his mind being disturbed in a way to which he was unaccustomed, while caution formed a part of his religion, as well as of his policy.
Leroy, on the wariness of young foxes in hunting-districts; on the desertion of their young by swallows.
Small and insignificant as it appears to be, even Europeans think that to kill the Hyrax is a tolerable test of sportsmanship, the wariness of the animal being so great that much hunter's craft is required to approach it.
It is not, however, within the practice of the better historical criticism of our day to let such elegant wariness beguile the reader's mind.
Columbus found in them, however, the same wariness which he had experienced at the greater court.
The wariness of a hill-man flung me at once upon my face, and peering through a tuft of sheltering heather, I looked anxiously towards them.
With the zest of boyhood, but the wariness of maturer years, I groped with cautious fingers beneath the stone and in a few seconds felt the slight movements of the little fish as my hands closed slowly upon it.
Still he had changed color, and his manner had that thoughtful and unsettled air which denote the consciousness of being in circumstances that require uncommonwariness and judgment.
Do not fancy, Sigismund, that I distrust thy motive, but the wariness of the old and the confidence of the young have so little in common!
In one or two instances, boards were wrested violently from their fastenings, and the cavities beneath were explored, with a wariness that increased as the investigation proceeded without success.
But the latter seemeth a measure that needeth to be entertained with great wariness of manner, and some distrust of purpose.
These two disastrous experiences, however, had added wariness and wisdom to the great bull's fighting rage.
He knew he could outdo the beavers in their own game ofwariness and watchfulness.
She followed the lead given her, but she made up her mind to know what it was about her neighbor, Mr. Bannister, the sheep herder, that needed to be handled with such wariness and circumspection of speech.
She had asked the question almost carelessly, without any thought that this might be something he wished to conceal, but she recognized her mistake by the wariness that filmed his eyes instantly.
He trod lightly, stealthily, and by his very wariness defeated his purpose of eluding observation.
There being very few new boys this term compared with last, he found himself by no means neglected in his walks abroad, and it required all his wariness to elude the gins and pitfalls prepared for him.
This called for great wariness on our part, to avoid discovery; but ere long God summoned him from the wardenship of the prison, and from the prison of his body at the same time.
His eyes had taken on a film ofwariness that blotted out for the moment their kindness.
A film of hardwariness covered the eyes of the boy as he looked across in the darkness at the other man.
And in fact the barbarians who had been appointed to the ambuscade knew nothing of the wariness of the Danes, and sallying against them rashly, were all destroyed.
It inhabits the mountains of Central and Southern Africa, and is noted for its wariness and wildness, as well as for its swiftness.
To determine what are little things in religion, great warinessis to be used.
He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
But let them know again that, for all the wariness can be used, it may yet befall a discreet man to be mistaken in his choice, and we have plenty of examples.
The wariness of the two combatants, both trained in the school of the eighteenth century with its reverence for the line of battle, will appear to the careful reader.
From this time until July 27th the wind continued to the westward, and the wariness of the French admiral baffled all his antagonist's efforts to get within range.
Apropos of this manner of carrying the neck, so natural to the bird, is it not the cause of the extreme wariness observable in Herons?
Later that evening, dancing, they covered their wariness carefully.
But his polite wariness soon dissolved, when, in the room where Mitchell Prell was holed up, he saw that the man who turned to face him was not his uncle.
With reference to the general intelligence of fish, allusion may first be made to their marked increase of wariness in waters which are much fished.
With regard to general intelligence, every one knows the extraordinary wariness of rats in relation to traps, which is only equalled in the animal kingdom by that of the fox and the wolverine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wariness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
