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  • These two are a peculiar pair—she circumspect and reserved, he bouncing on his toes, humming with energy.†   (source)
  • An exceedingly calm, circumspect man, Groom was pleasant company but seldom spoke unless spoken to and replied to questions tersely, in a barely audible voice.†   (source)
  • She was practically an adult now, it seemed—she certainly spoke like one, often more measured and circumspect than her parents.†   (source)
  • "Meat and food products, generally speaking," J. Ogden Armour claimed in a Saturday Evening Post article, "are handled as carefully and circumspectly in large packing houses as they are in the average home kitchen."†   (source)
  • The newspapers say that the police are being more circumspect, that they cannot afford to make another hasty arrest.†   (source)
  • A very quiet, circumspect crusade where each side was sure they were protecting the immortal soul of the Archives.†   (source)
  • The eminent teacher shook hands with each of them, as he always did with every one of his pupils before beginning the daily class in general clinical medicine, and then, as if it were a flower, he grasped the hem of the blanket with the tips of his index finger and his thumb, and slowly uncovered the body with sacramental circumspection.†   (source)
  • The Guild requires that we play a circumspect game.†   (source)
  • They were used circumspectly, and the humans remained, for the most part, oblivious.†   (source)
  • If Dolores knew, she would crawl up in her blanket of affectations and die circumspectly.†   (source)
  • In particular, people enjoyed the relief offered by his manipulation treatments, although this was a problem with some of the more circumspect female patients.†   (source)
  • Eragon had to be circumspect about his training.†   (source)
  • Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women.†   (source)
  • Little Janet hadn't told a soul that she had a motion entered in court—typical jailhouse circumspection.†   (source)
  • "A little circumspection might be wise for someone in your position, Gen," he said mildly.†   (source)
  • In cities you build a language of circumspection and tact, a thousand little intimations, the nuance that has a shimmer of rubbed bronze.†   (source)
  • The voice lighter, more circumspect.†   (source)
  • He became more circumspect in his work as a result of the visit from the second C.I.D. man.†   (source)
  • Our words had to be circumspect.†   (source)
  • He eyed the bat circumspectly.†   (source)
  • But he was too circumspect in his findings.†   (source)
  • "I think we should be circumspect here," interrupted the Canadian doctor firmly.†   (source)
  • I don't want Lisbeth Salander to be harmed when you apprehend her … but yes, in her case I would try to make sure the arrest is carried out with the utmost circumspection.†   (source)
  • In the next place, your cousin John seconded her by taking a larger cut, and as cautious as cousin T when he inspects merchandise, bisected his paste with mathematical circumspection; but to him it pertained not.†   (source)
  • Considering the viciousness of the enemies pursuing the enigmatic Dr. Tucker, however, Demi's circumspection was understandable.†   (source)
  • Ser Alliser had grown more circumspect since Lord Janos had lost his head, but the malice was still there.†   (source)
  • Biding my time circumspectly among the roses, I watched them in secret, thinking the long, troubled thoughts of my last days as a cadet.†   (source)
  • You've been raised to be circumspect and careful.†   (source)
  • He had left off being a perfectionist then, when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean, not membership in Onwentsia, or the Lake Forest Golf and Country Club, or the Lawyers' Club, not power, or knowledge, or goodness—not anything—cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.†   (source)
  • Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.†   (source)
  • The man who helped John Wilkes Booth and David Herold escape into Virginia, Thomas Jones, was circumspect about his role in the assassination for many years.†   (source)
  • In China, Helen had been taught enormous circumspection; the world there was like a skating rink, a finite space, walled.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of 1938, in the full flood of his passion, he began working on his magnum opus, the aforementioned pamphlet, in which for the first time he broached the idea—very cautiously, backing and filling with a circumspection bordering on the ambiguous—of "total abolishment."†   (source)
  • The brothels were quiet, orderly, and circumspect.†   (source)
  • She wrote the most researched and circumspect biography of Benjamin Franklin.
  • Despite the public outcry, a more circumspect Senate will be hesitant to pass such legislation.
  • She's too circumspect to make that kind of mistake.
    circumspect = thoughtful of all circumstances and consequences
  • It is God who gave us reason and circumspection!†   (source)
  • I am practical and circumspect; he is impulsive and direct.†   (source)
  • She was, you know, kind of circumspect about it.†   (source)
  • You know where to find me, and her, if you are circumspect and fortunate.†   (source)
  • Sweat glistened on his forehead; he seemed more circumspect than normal.†   (source)
  • They were less circumspect than they should have been, because they were overconfident.†   (source)
  • " The circumspect public official looked at the killer in priest's clothes.†   (source)
  • But she has beauty without frivolity, domesticity without dullness, and simplicity of manner, and prudence, and circumspection.†   (source)
  • He would take off his frock coat with his circumspect gestures and hang it over the back of the chair, he would put on the cuffs so he would not dirty his shirt sleeves, he would unbutton his vest so he could think better, and sometimes until very late at night he would encourage the hopeless with letters of mad adoration.†   (source)
  • "Circumspect," Vivian says.†   (source)
  • Lillian, with her friendly expression and golden blond hair, is easier to like than the arch and circumspect Emily, who has a funny half smile and severe dark bangs and is always making jokes I don't get.†   (source)
  • Circumspect?†   (source)
  • I see you are most anxious to meet the volunteers, as will be most of the men when they learn of their arrival, and so I suggest you remain as circumspect as possible.†   (source)
  • She watched him circumspectly.†   (source)
  • To hear him was to realize how I must have sounded when I was with her, though his tone was elegant, still circumspect, only the least bit attenuated.†   (source)
  • …in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.†   (source)
  • Jefferson was far more guarded and circumspect, better organized, dispassionate, more mannered, and refused ever to argue.†   (source)
  • When they were done the horses stood in the potrero or stepped about trailing their hackamore ropes over the ground with such circumspection not to tread upon them and snatch down their sore noses that they moved with an air of great elegance and seemliness.†   (source)
  • Fair-haired, pleasing in appearance, she was taller than her mother, more circumspect, less inclined to voice an opinion, a "fine majestic girl who has as much dignity as a princess," in Abigail's description, though she wondered if Nabby was too reserved, too prudent.†   (source)
  • This may sound ludicrous, and even execrable under the circumstances, but I was youthful and naive enough that I possessed much more of a kind of hard focusing than any circumspection, which one may argue has remained with me for my whole life.†   (source)
  • And sitting at the wheel I became angry all at once, angry at her lack of care and circumspection, and if she had been in the passenger seat looking at me with her comely palish-pink face and sea-blue eyes, I would have scolded her as hotly as I wished to scold Sunny when she was a teen.†   (source)
  • …rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.†   (source)
  • The conduct of a widow must be twice as circumspect as that of a matron.†   (source)
  • To his mother's circumspect inquiries, Aunt Bertha had at first explained that there was much work being done on her teeth, work of a subtle and occult nature, a delicate prying and adjusting that could only be felt but hardly demonstrated.†   (source)
  • By his junior year, if he was successful, he had a political manager, who engineered his campus ambitions; he moved with circumspection, and spoke with a trace of pomp nicely weighed with cordiality: "Ah, there, gentlemen."†   (source)
  • She had two children by him, both girls: she moved with wasted stealth around all the quiet slander of a South Carolina mill-town, committing adultery carefully with a mill owner, a banker, and a lumber man, walking circumspectly with her tender blonde smile by day past all the sly smiles of town and trade, knowing that the earth was mined below her feet, and that her name, with clerk and merchant, was a sign for secret laughter.†   (source)
  • I had to act with the utmost circumspection to save myself from the suspicion of insanity.†   (source)
  • She goes quietly and circumspectly out to the right.†   (source)
  • "We must return to our rest cure, however," Joachim said circumspectly.†   (source)
  • We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning man.†   (source)
  • What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.†   (source)
  • He forgot the need of circumspectness which his married state enforced.†   (source)
  • He paid for two tickets as circumspectly as possible.†   (source)
  • The combat now became more characteristic and circumspect.†   (source)
  • Lydgate smiled, but he was bent on being circumspect.†   (source)
  • The life of a soldier, brother Cap, is one of constant thought and circumspection.†   (source)
  • He remembered Will's irritability when he had mentioned Mrs. Casaubon, and was the more circumspect.†   (source)
  • We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect.†   (source)
  • Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.†   (source)
  • This brought me near to where I had encountered Ben Gunn, the maroon; and I walked more circumspectly, keeping an eye on every side.†   (source)
  • Yet so great had been her home drilling as to the need of modesty, circumspection, purity and the like, that on this occasion at least there was no danger of any immediate lapse.†   (source)
  • He behaved, however, with great circumspection, so that nothing leaked through to the other passengers.†   (source)
  • In yon great, muckle house, with all these domestics, upper and under, show yourself as nice, as circumspect, as quick at the conception, and as slow of speech as any.†   (source)
  • The filth of his cooking was indescribable; and, as he cooked everything that was eaten aboard, I was compelled to select what I ate with great circumspection, choosing from the least dirty of his concoctions.†   (source)
  • Therefore he was circumspect in all he did, and whenever he appeared in the public ways in the afternoon, or on Sunday, it was with his wife, and sometimes his children.†   (source)
  • And, certainly, in foresight as to the larger issue of an encounter, and anxious preparations for it—buoying the deadly way and mapping it out, as at Copenhagen—few commanders have been so painstakingly circumspect as this same reckless declarer of his person in fight.†   (source)
  • The dairyman himself had been lending a hand; but Mr Crick, as well as his wife, seemed latterly to have acquired a suspicion of mutual interest between these two; though they walked so circumspectly that suspicion was but of the faintest.†   (source)
  • And then several other minor witnesses to say that in so far as they had been able to observe his social comings and goings, Clyde's conduct was most circumspect, ceremonious and guarded.†   (source)
  • "It seems to me, however, that we should be grateful to the management for these concerts," Joachim said circumspectly.†   (source)
  • Small wonder then that the Indomitable's Captain, though in general a man of rapid decision, felt that circumspectness not less than promptitude was necessary.†   (source)
  • At the sight of that we crawled as circumspectly as possible out of the twilight of the kitchen into the darkness of the scullery.†   (source)
  • He walked very slowly and circumspectly, and there was something indescribably guilty and furtive in his whole appearance.†   (source)
  • And if Herr Settembrini followed this with a pause, it was clear that he did so solely out of pedagogic circumspection.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Griffiths sighed; for after all, in a place like Lycurgus and established as they were, any one related to them and having their name ought to be most circumspect and have careful manners and taste and judgment.†   (source)
  • He withdrew his attention to his paper very circumspectly, listening mentally for the little sounds which should show him what was on foot.†   (source)
  • Finally, almost simultaneously, as if by some silent agreement, they stood up circumspectly; ingeniously avoiding any glances toward the other occupied corner of the room, with heads tucked low and arms stiff to their sides, the man from Mannheim and the teacher softly vanished together on tiptoe by way of the reading room.†   (source)
  • She was in a position to become refractory with considerable advantage, and Hurstwood conducted himself circumspectly because he felt that he could not be sure of anything once she became dissatisfied.†   (source)
  • Old Fiete circumspectly shooed it off, though avoiding actually touching the forehead; a shadow of respectability darkened his face, as if he should not know, and did not want to know, what he was doing—an expression of propriety, which apparently was related to Grandfather's being only a body and nothing more.†   (source)
  • He was too civilized to tell his nephew—whose calm indifference made it quite clear that he was in agreement with the way things were done up here—how terrifying he had found the woman, and so he simply rapped on his nephew's door and circumspectly inquired if he did not also think the head nurse just a little odd.†   (source)
  • Nothing, but that the lessons of her past folly might teach her humility and circumspection in future.†   (source)
  • The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and then the other, and snuffing considerately in the directions of the various bottles, ordered at last a mint julep, in a thin and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection.†   (source)
  • Catherine may have had her difficulties; but those of her circumspect suitor are also worthy of consideration.†   (source)
  • "It is over," answered Vronsky, smiling with his eyes only, and twirling the tips of his mustaches as circumspectly as though after the perfect order into which his affairs had been brought any over-bold or rapid movement might disturb it.†   (source)
  • The utmost circumspection consequently became necessary, and each one was too much engrossed with his own thoughts to feel a disposition to utter more than was called for by the exigencies of the case.†   (source)
  • 'I hope the terrific noise you made just now was the signal of victory,' said my wife, drawing near, with the utmost circumspection, and holding Franz tightly by the hand.†   (source)
  • The latter, indeed, were so near as to make the utmost circumspection, as to motion and noise, indispensable.†   (source)
  • Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.†   (source)
  • As in America paternal discipline is very relaxed and the conjugal tie very strict, a young woman does not contract the latter without considerable circumspection and apprehension.†   (source)
  • Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.†   (source)
  • I honour your circumspection.†   (source)
  • One reason was that before proceeding to any act he was always circumspect, conjectural, contemplative; he had little eagerness, as became a man who felt that whenever he really began to move he walked with long steps.†   (source)
  • I suspect no one; death raps at your door—it enters—it goes, not blindfolded, but circumspectly, from room to room.†   (source)
  • During the short and frugal repast that followed, the conversation was extremely circumspect, and related entirely to the events of the hunt, in which Magua had so lately been engaged.†   (source)
  • She was almost mistress of the house when Mr. Crawley was absent, but conducted herself in her new and exalted situation with such circumspection and modesty as not to offend the authorities of the kitchen and stable, among whom her behaviour was always exceedingly modest and affable.†   (source)
  • The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation, and he employs Irishmen or other operatives actually to lay the foundations, while the students that are to be are said to be fitting themselves for it; and for these oversights…†   (source)
  • He shook hands with me in a friendly, but not over-friendly, fashion, with a sort of circumspect courtesy like that of a General, as though in giving me his hand he were warding off something.†   (source)
  • "My life," says the unhappy stationer, "would you have any objections to mention why, being in general so delicately circumspect in your conduct, you come into a wine-vaults before breakfast?"†   (source)
  • He disposed of its contents with much circumspection, holding it for a long time close to his chin, with his face turned to the house.†   (source)
  • He reflected constantly on what his adviser had said to him, and turned over in his mind the impression of her rather circumspect tone.†   (source)
  • If Jo had not been otherwise engaged, Laurie's behavior would have amused her, for a faint twinge, not of jealousy, but something like suspicion, caused that gentleman to stand aloof at first, and observe the newcomer with brotherly circumspection.†   (source)
  • The Father Superior bowed his head at his malicious lie, and again spoke impressively: "It is written again, 'Bear circumspectly and gladly dishonor that cometh upon thee by no act of thine own, be not confounded and hate not him who hath dishonored thee.'†   (source)
  • Vassily Ivanovitch several times attempted in the most circumspect manner to question Bazarov about his work, about his health, and about Arkady….†   (source)
  • The imagination of the Americans, even in its greatest flights, is circumspect and undecided; its impulses are checked, and its works unfinished.†   (source)
  • They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by some strange perversion of terms, 'The Green': when the Dodger made a sudden stop; and, laying his finger on his lip, drew his companions back again, with the greatest caution and circumspection.†   (source)
  • For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.†   (source)
  • His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.†   (source)
  • After that the generals began to disperse with the solemnity and circumspect silence of people who are leaving, after a funeral.†   (source)
  • And young Lieutenant Spatterdash (who was fond of piquet, and whom Crawley would often invite) was evidently and quickly smitten by Mrs. Crawley; but her own circumspection and modesty never forsook her for a moment, and Crawley's reputation as a fire-eating and jealous warrior was a further and complete defence to his little wife.†   (source)
  • "Ah, a voice!" repeated Oblonsky, feeling that he must be as circumspect as he possibly could in this society, where something peculiar was going on, or was to go on, to which he had not the key.†   (source)
  • …a gratuitous somerset, as if all the eyes in the universe were eyed on him—for all the motions of a squirrel, even in the most solitary recesses of the forest, imply spectators as much as those of a dancing girl—wasting more time in delay and circumspection than would have sufficed to walk the whole distance—I never saw one walk—and then suddenly, before you could say Jack Robinson, he would be in the top of a young pitch pine, winding up his clock and chiding all imaginary spectators,…†   (source)
  • As regards one point, however, her circumspection prevailed, and she must be given due credit for it.†   (source)
  • Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary VEIN in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.†   (source)
  • "M. de Villefort," replied the doctor, with increased vehemence, "there are occasions when I dispense with all foolish human circumspection.†   (source)
  • These were all reasons for the greatest caution and most circumspect behaviour in communicating it to Mrs. Maylie, whose first impulse would infallibly be to hold a conference with the worthy doctor on the subject.†   (source)
  • When a child begins to move in the midst of the objects which surround him, he is instinctively led to turn everything which he can lay his hands upon to his own purposes; he has no notion of the property of others; but as he gradually learns the value of things, and begins to perceive that he may in his turn be deprived of his possessions, he becomes more circumspect, and he observes those rights in others which he wishes to have respected in himself.†   (source)
  • In the manner and tone of these two persons, on first meeting at any juncture, and especially when they met in the presence of others, was something indirect and circumspect, as if they had approached each other obliquely and addressed each other by implication.†   (source)
  • Some rash acts of my past life have taught me that a watched woman must have very much circumspection to retain only a very little credit, and I do want and long to be discreet in this!†   (source)
  • A third person rode up circumspectly through the wood (it was plain that he had had a lesson) and stopped behind the count.†   (source)
  • "And this," said she, "is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! the happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!"†   (source)
  • And when reaching out his knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab thereby motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate received his meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection.†   (source)
  • Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme disciplines of her sex and age.†   (source)
  • Her ringlets, her buckles and bangles, glistened more brightly with each succeeding year, and she remained quite the same officious and imaginative Mrs. Penniman, and the odd mixture of impetuosity and circumspection, that we have hitherto known.†   (source)
  • "Hark'e, brother Dunham," said he, with an ominous face, "this is a matter that requires mature thought and much circumspection."†   (source)
  • "I've always heard that the Scotch had two of the good qualities of soldiers," she said, "courage and circumspection; and I feel persuaded that Corporal M'Nab will sustain the national renown."†   (source)
  • When with due circumspection Napoleon was informed that Moscow was empty, he looked angrily at his informant, turned away, and silently continued to walk to and fro.†   (source)
  • The event has proved, that I was a cunning fool, providing with great circumspection for a possible opportunity of making myself contemptible and wretched for ever.†   (source)
  • But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate from what nature inclines him to do, and also because, having always prospered by acting in one way, he cannot be persuaded that it is well to leave it; and, therefore, the cautious man, when it is time to turn adventurous, does not know how to do it, hence he is ruined; but had he changed his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.†   (source)
  • "My interests must lie with the MacKenzie clan as a whole," Mr. Gowan said circumspectly.†   (source)
  • "A bit less than you," I said circumspectly.†   (source)
  • "He wasna best pleased about it," he said circumspectly.†   (source)
  • She pities you in your tears.
    She wings me here to tell you all these things."
    But the circumspect Penelope replied,
    "If you are a god and have heard a god's own voice,
    come, tell me about that luckless man as well.
    Is he still alive? does he see the light of day?
    Or is he dead already, lost in the House of Death?"
    "About that man," the shadowy phantom answered,
    "I cannot tell you the story start to finish,
    whether he's dead or alive.
    It's wrong to lead you on with idle…†   (source)
  • The news was imparted with a circumspection recalling the ceremonial usage of the Sublime Porte by the second female infirmarian to the junior medical officer in residence, who in his turn announced to the delegation that an heir had been born, When he had betaken himself to the women's apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and…†   (source)
  • With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and of death.†   (source)
  • Prudence and circumspection are necessary even to the best of men.†   (source)
  • The abuse of this power of taxation seems to have been provided against with guarded circumspection.†   (source)
  • On any scale it is an object of laudable circumspection and precaution.†   (source)
  • Here he had need All circumspection: and we now no less Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send The weight of all, and our last hope, relies.†   (source)
  • Most of the company were chapmen and waggoners, all extremely polite; they asked Cacambo a few questions with the greatest circumspection, and answered his in the most obliging manner.†   (source)
  • Accordingly our eyes were very circumspect, till about half a league farther, we perceived a dead horse, and near a dozen of wolves devouring its carcase.†   (source)
  • If Chrysostom's impatience and violent passion killed him, why should my modest behaviour and circumspection be blamed?†   (source)
  • And consequently men had need to be very circumspect, and wary, in obeying the voice of man, that pretending himself to be a Prophet, requires us to obey God in that way, which he in Gods name telleth us to be the way to happinesse.†   (source)
  • I walked with the utmost circumspection, to avoid treading on any stragglers who might remain in the streets, although the orders were very strict, that all people should keep in their houses, at their own peril.†   (source)
  • ] And unrespective boys; none are for me That look into me with considerate eyes: High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.†   (source)
  • 23:13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.†   (source)
  • To say the truth, I doubted not from his many strong expressions of friendship, but that he would offer to lend me a small sum for that purpose, but he answered, 'Never mind that, man; e'en boldly run a levant' [Partridge was going to inquire the meaning of that word, but Jones stopped his mouth]: 'but be circumspect as to the man.†   (source)
  • …friend, that a woman is virtuous only in proportion as she is or is not tempted; and that she alone is strong who does not yield to the promises, gifts, tears, and importunities of earnest lovers; for what thanks does a woman deserve for being good if no one urges her to be bad, and what wonder is it that she is reserved and circumspect to whom no opportunity is given of going wrong and who knows she has a husband that will take her life the first time he detects her in an impropriety?†   (source)
  • So all ere day-spring, under conscious night, Secret they finished, and in order set, With silent circumspection, unespied.†   (source)
  • I walked very circumspectly, for fear of being surprised, or suddenly shot with an arrow from behind, or on either side.†   (source)
  • And had he had that discerning acuteness which many Europeans have, he would certainly have perceived my coldness and indifference, and also have been very much concerned upon that account; as I was now more circumspect, I had much lessened my kindness and familiarity with him, and while this jealousy continued, I used that artful way (now to much in fashion, the occasion of strife and dissention) of pumping him daily thereby to discover whether he was deceitful in his thoughts and…†   (source)
  • Praemeditation, Aggravateth; A Crime arising from a sudden Passion, is not so great, as when the same ariseth from long meditation: For in the former case there is a place for Extenuation, in the common infirmity of humane nature: but he that doth it with praemeditation, has used circumspection, and cast his eye, on the Law, on the punishment, and on the consequence thereof to humane society; all which in committing the Crime, hee hath contemned, and postposed to his own appetite.†   (source)
  • So saying, his proud step he scornful turned, But with sly circumspection, and began Through wood, through waste, o'er hill, o'er dale, his roam Mean while in utmost longitude, where Heaven With earth and ocean meets, the setting sun Slowly descended, and with right aspect Against the eastern gate of Paradise Levelled his evening rays: It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicuous far, winding with one ascent Accessible from earth, one entrance high; The rest was…†   (source)
  • Nor were the two men who were in her more circumspect; for having drunk a little too much liquor, they fell fast asleep; but one of them waking before the other, and perceiving the boat too fast aground for his strength to move it, he hallooed out to the rest, who made all possible expedition to come to him; but as Providence ordered it, all their force was ineffectual to launch her, when I could hear them speak to one another, _Why let her alone, Jack, can't ye, she'll float next…†   (source)
  • "That is enough," said Dorothea; "run, Sancho, and kiss your lord's hand and beg his pardon, and henceforward be more circumspect with your praise and abuse; and say nothing in disparagement of that lady Toboso, of whom I know nothing save that I am her servant; and put your trust in God, for you will not fail to obtain some dignity so as to live like a prince."†   (source)
  • As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.†   (source)
  • I waved my cap (for my hat was long since worn out) and my handkerchief toward the island; and upon its nearer approach, I called and shouted with the utmost strength of my voice; and then looking circumspectly, I beheld a crowd gather to that side which was most in my view.†   (source)
  • It is upon this account that the image of Justice, in their courts of judicature, is formed with six eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each side one, to signify circumspection; with a bag of gold open in her right hand, and a sword sheathed in her left, to show she is more disposed to reward than to punish.†   (source)
  • The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat, would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; the dread of being accused of weakness or connivance, would beget equal circumspection, though of a different kind.†   (source)
  • To this the Trifaldi made answer, "Sancho, you may freely commend yourself to God or whom you will; for Malambruno though an enchanter is a Christian, and works his enchantments with great circumspection, taking very good care not to fall out with anyone."†   (source)
  • …if by the thorough harmony that subsisted between them while he was a bachelor they had earned such a sweet name as that of "The Two Friends," he should not allow a title so rare and so delightful to be lost through a needless anxiety to act circumspectly; and so he entreated him, if such a phrase was allowable between them, to be once more master of his house and to come in and go out as formerly, assuring him that his wife Camilla had no other desire or inclination than that which he…†   (source)
  • I am not unaware of the circumstances which distinguish the American from other popular governments, as well ancient as modern; and which render extreme circumspection necessary, in reasoning from the one case to the other.†   (source)
  • The differences of opinion, and the jarrings of parties in that department of the government, though they may sometimes obstruct salutary plans, yet often promote deliberation and circumspection, and serve to check excesses in the majority.†   (source)
  • If he should now apply himself to a careful and critical survey of the articles of Confederation, his astonishment would not only be increased, but would acquire a mixture of indignation, at the unexpected discovery, that these articles, instead of containing the prohibition he looked for, and though they had, with jealous circumspection, restricted the authority of the State legislatures in this particular, had not imposed a single restraint on that of the United States.†   (source)
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