poor lookout
Example Sentences
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Ah, well! ’twas now a mean, poor lookout for the 207 cosey conviviality I had all my life promised myself with my uncle.
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan
It is a poor lookout to be risking death continually in the service of a foreign king.
From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Charles Mills Sheldon
And if they should succeed it will be a pretty poor lookout for all hands aboard this ship!
From Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship by W. Herbert Holloway
Troth! it 'ud be a poor lookout if I was that easy frightened.
From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis
He took post in a fence corner, but he kept a poor lookout and was surprised and taken prisoner by a squad of the enemy that had stolen a march on him.
From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry
