unwary
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Unwary tourists who buy a U. S. automobile abroad and try to bring it home with them find to their sorrow that reimport duty is 25% ad valorem.
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Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19.
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Unwary politicians have been known to be seized by a malady normally found among spiritual leaders.
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Unwary readers might well be taken in by Author Gerhardi's occasionally indubitable solemnity, might almost believe that the psychic experience he writes of is meant to be taken at its face value.
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While I am thus rendering human Learning, its just Tribute of Praise, Truth requires, that I should be free to detect those little Arts, so often practised to deceive the Unwary, and misguide Mankind.
From Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines. by Finch, Richard
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