dangersome
Example Sentences
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“How can you find your way?” asked Mrs. Bridges, to whom this was a mortally dangersome journey.
From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin
We’re now on the biggest o’ all oceans, an’ if we stood on the wrong tack, we might niver set eyes on land—or only to be cast away on some dangersome shore.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
I've had high goes with it many a time, but it's 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
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
So long’s thar’s a spark ahead, it’ll be dangersome to put in.
From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Reid, Mayne
