1 Not for Hood the cautious tactics of General Johnston.
2 Then she heard his cautious feet on the front steps and his stealthy tread as he entered the hall and she knew that escape was cut off.
3 Miss Sherwin stood out for sweetness and a cautious use of the uncomfortable properties of light.
4 She walked the rails, balancing with arms extended, cautious heel before toe.
5 Mysteriously aching, nebulously sad, she slipped away, half-convinced but only half-convinced that it was horrible and unnatural, this postponement of release of mother-affection, this sacrifice to her opinionation and to his cautious desire for prosperity.
6 To Carol was given a sudden great philosophical understanding, an explanation of half the cautious reforms in history.
7 They stepped uncomfortably from the safety of the plank platform and, balancing on their toes, taking cautious strides, ventured along the road.
8 Some hold each other tightly, some at a cautious distance.
9 He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
10 During his short conference, Heyward, finding a respite from his gravest fears, had leisure to admire the cautious manner in which the Hurons had made their approaches, even after hostilities had ceased.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 11 When the young man mentioned the artifice he supposed the Indian to have practised on his own nation, the countenance of the listener was veiled in an expression of cautious gravity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 12 They then approached, though with slow and cautious steps, pausing every instant to look at the building, like startled deer whose curiosity struggled powerfully with their awakened apprehensions for the mastery.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 13 They said they scorned the devices of the cautious.
14 He had grown into an extremely clear-headed, cautious, prudent young man, who was safe to rise in the world.
15 His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.