Precautions

Examples

• In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• With such precautions we cannot very well be surprised. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I argued that you would not take such precautions unless you had some danger to fear. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am well prepared, but there are precautions to be taken, that could not be taken until he was actually summoned before the Tribunal. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But he should take warning, sir, and use precautions too, interposed Mr. Sweeting; and I think he would if he heard what I heard the other day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The following general precautions are worth observing:-- 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Whether, in spite of all precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I hope you observed all precautions, Mrs. Hudson? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These precautions well understood by both of us, I went home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• No special precautions were taken to insulate the rails from the earth or from each other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Well, if you don't mean to be won by the sirens, you are right to take precautions in time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Carrying no pack and taking his precautions, in three hours with luck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He must go to bed immediately, must have a regular nurse, and various appliances and precautions must be used, about which Lydgate was particular. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But my good fellow, even an innocent man must take ordinary precautions to defend himself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You may be sure that I took some precautions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I know you'll excuse the precautions of affection, won't you? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But one must move with much precautions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He zealously undertook to do so, and to intercept any newspaper through which it might, without such precautions, reach him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There are two precautions, at all events, which I am sure not to forget. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How very comfortable they make it;impossible to feel cold with such precautions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fumes of the phosphorus attack the teeth, especially when decayed, and penetrate to the jaw, causing its gradual destruction, but this has been avoided by proper precautions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I also notified Smith of his danger, and the precautions that would be taken to protect him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With all our precautions, you see that we have cut it rather fine, said Holmes, laughing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You can come up, and I am sorry if my precautions have annoyed you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I must take such precautions as will prevent my being ever again reduced to the state of dreadful depression in which I am this evening. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Of course, you will say: 'Why not take police precautions against him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then there was old Mr. Turveydrop, who was from morning to night and from night to morning the subject of innumerable precautions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• First, I resumed, half groaning, what precautions can be taken against your being recognized and seized? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My friends, I said, our risk is common; our precautions and exertions shall be common also. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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