dangersome

Example Sentences

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“Stranger,” said Mr. Simms, after greetings had been exchanged, “you’re right welcome, but in my kentry you’d find it dangersome to walk in thisaway.”

From The Brown Mouse by Quick, Herbert

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

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

Mighty dangersome," acquiesced the narrator, "dat's what I 'lowed ter myse'f when I seed him.

From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)

Well, den," she resumed, "Quail start inter de meanness he bin hatchin' up, an' he say, sezee, 'Uncle Wolf, deys a man down dar below whar gittin' ter be dangersome.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney