Leaving Gorey we had a good look at the rock called L'Etac de Sark with its satellites, and gave them a wide berth, for their tooth-like appearance is not at all pleasant when but an inch of wood lies between one and a watery grave.
It is a ferocious beast, but will probably give us a wide berth.
This was something which nobody knew; and the incident was promptly forgotten by all but Jack Wright, who thenceforth gave the animal a wide berth.
We passed Confital Bay, whose 'comfits' are galettes of stone, and gave a wide berth to the Isleta and its Sphinx's head.
Saturday (December 10), giving a wide berth to the hated Pearl Rock, which skippers would remove by force of arms.
This fellow, when he noticed my bold front, and that I was marching on him with weapon in hand, quickened his pace and gave me a wide berth.
Being prepared, I was not in the least disconcerted; but kept upon my guard, and slackening pace a little, drew nearer toward the wall, in order to give the fellow a wide berth.
CIX WELL, to return to the subject of my bed; when Bozza and Pedignone came, I always told them to give it a wide berth, so as not to dirty and spoil it for me.
Apparently taking us for desperadoes, they veered off to some distance in the sage and gave us a "wide berth.
I brayed myself hoarse trying to persuade my reckless master to give Rangely a wide berth.
Ranchmen had cautioned me to give Rangely, the next settlement, a "wide berth.
I resolved that when I should return East I would go by ship around the Horn, or by train across the Isthmus, or else choose a trans-continental route which would give that section, honied and milked by Pye Pod, a wide berth.
By that time the stout Dutch bark, having given a wide berth to the wakes of war, was forty leagues west of Cape Finisterre, under orders to touch no land short of the Cape, except for fresh water at St. Jago.
The practice of her captain, the lively Charron, was to give a wide berth to any British cruiser appearing singly; but whenever more than one hove in sight, to run into the midst of them and dip his flag.
But his first care was to give a wide berth to the land and the many French vessels that were moored or moving, whether belonging to the great flotilla, or hastening to supply its wants.
If you can give a wide berth to all sorts of intoxicating liquors, as I do, I should be delighted to have you return to Philadelphia with me.
Give it a wide berth, and the way is open before you to success.
If he had, he would have given a wide berth to the salt marsh and the wharf project.
Well, had I thought of all this before, it is possible that I might have given her house a wide berth.
Well, the half-caste Indians of the estancias used to give this ruin a wide berth; they had nasty stories to tell about it, stories that had been handed down through generations.
These latter, and the guanaco, give me a wide berth now.
Rumors of them increased as we moved north and west; but, if about, they gave us a wide berth.
Night after night we heard these howling around us, and sometimes by day a single cayote would skulk across the road; but they took good care to give our Remingtons and Spencers a wide berth.
It may be, that the bay was a little ruder that day, than usual; but it bears a bad name for sudden gusts and squalls, and San Franciscans give it a wide berth generally.
At any other time he would have given such an antagonist as the colossal megatherium a wide berth; but just now he was in one of his madnesses.
They were following on a slant that gave the woods a wide berth.
To such patches, which might serve as lurking-places to unknown monsters, Grôm gave a wide berth.
Many of these dangers have no real existence, but still the prudent mariner gives them a wide berth, when sailing past the localities assigned them.
The few ships of the enemy that passed, still gave the Cape a wide berth, and winged their flight homeward over the by-ways, instead of the highways of the ocean.
Then it was advisable to get into the saddle with little loss of time and give him a wide berth, for he generally arose angry and sullen.
When the steer was freed, McCann, having no horse at hand, climbed into the wagon, while the rest of us sought safety in our saddles, and gave him a wide berth.
There were range cattle through that section, but fearful of Texas fever, their owners gave the Powder River a wide berth.
He was out of the sick-list in four days; but he ever after gave the cock a wide berth, and plenty of sea-room.
One of the dog's eyes was entirely destroyed; and it need not be added he ever after gave that house a wide berth.
Some months ago when I wandered down here, a native who was chopping wood said the place was haunted, for which reason the people give it a wide berth.
Even those who had been in the habit of speaking to her, gave her a wide berth, so you can imagine how comforted I felt!
No one present had any hesitation about giving the brute a wide berth, and at the end of a minute or two it uncoiled itself and lay in undulations, showing its length pretty plainly.
Crocs are pretty active of a night, so let's give them a wide berth.
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