dangersome
Example Sentences
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"Water ain't dangersome, nowise," retorted the elderly Persimmon, with a snarling smile.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
That we shed both be hyar, neested snug an’ comfortable as two doons in the heart of a hollow tree, arter all the dangersome scrapes we’ve been passin’ through.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
I've had high goes with it many a time, but its plaguy dangersome, and I don't pracTISE it now but seldom.
From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
It's moor coomfortable wi' me, and it's main dangersome to handle on the half-cock.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Harte, Bret
Ter make sure all on us must start with hit, fur gittin' through the lines is now mouty dangersome, an' somebody—mebbe several—is bound to git cotcht, mebbe wuss.
From The Red Acorn by McElroy, John
