dangersome
Example Sentences
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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
I'll trust you, sir; but my work is dangersome, and please God I should get killed, will you do the same for Martha and little Nan?'
From Fern's Hollow by Stretton, Hesba
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
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
In sich scrapes, ’taint the beginnin’ but the eend as is dangersome.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
