Dangerously

Examples

• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• My uncle was almost persuaded that you were indeed dangerously ill, and could hardly be restrained from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The more we censor it, the more likely it is to appear disguised, to fool us subtly and perhaps dangerously. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Falling over the side, it impeded the yacht's course, and brought her gunwale dangerously near the water. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He laughed dangerously, from the blood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They were plausible and dangerously unsound working ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His eyes narrowed dangerously. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The sewage disposal is often inadequate and badly planned, and the water becomes dangerously contaminated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Do you happen to know if she is dangerously mad, Miss Halcombe? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The case of the Countess Olenska had stirred up old settled convictions and set them drifting dangerously through his mind. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She assured her, smiling, she was not dangerously ill; she talked to her in a low voice, but cheerfully. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This part--which at the moment seemed dangerously like the whole--was filled to the brim with the sensations of the previous evening. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Early in the day, Argyropylo was wounded dangerously, and Raymond assumed the command of the whole army. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In contrast with the settled folk, the agriculturists, these nomads lived freely and dangerously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Editor: Theresa