Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.
" Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.
If he was deep, she would also abandon him, for depth is precarious.
" Huck felt that a silence was going to ensue—a thing still more awful than any amount of murderous talk; so he held his breath and stepped gingerly back; planted his foot carefully and firmly, after balancing, one-legged, in a precarious way and almost toppling over, first on one side and then on the other.
Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas.
As a consequence of this example in the family, the very mention of music as a profession carried with it a picture of a precarious existence with uncertain financial rewards.
ating is precarious at the best of times, because you never know who you're going to end up meeting.
' Despite my urges to have it resized, and his insistence his finger would 'fill it out' in time, the ring remained in a precarious place, until an ill-fated beach trip, mere weeks before our two-year anniversary, when he decided he wanted just one more toss of the pigskin with a friend down by the water.
As a culture, we seem to thrive on judging other women, whether it's their appearance (see every best-dressed list, ever) or what they should be allowed to do with their bodies (cast a glance at the headlines regarding the precarious future of Roe v.
ew research has revealed how the iconic Leaning Tower of Pisa has managed to stay standing -- and intact -- in the face of four strong earthquakes and a precarious lean of five degrees.
New research has revealed how the iconic Leaning Tower of Pisa has managed to stay standing -- and intact -- in the face of four strong earthquakes and a precarious lean of five degrees.
" 'Womanhood is not precarious and does not need the same level of public defense as manhood.
It's also a bit precarious.
But the concern now is that missteps could have global consequences, as the leadership in Beijing seeks to manage a precarious economic slowdown and curtail the country's reliance on debt-fueled growth.
A precarious job market has led us to believe our presence at the office (or wherever your workplace happens to be) is of the utmost importance.
It's precarious ground negotiating private relationships with people you care about.
Then we precarious moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then limped away, still smiling and waving back to me.
As a consequence of this example in the family, the very mention of music as a profession carried with it a picture of a precarious existence with uncertain financial rewards.
