dangersome
Example Sentences
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People lived in them yet, but it was dangersome, because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Twain, Mark
It's moor coomfortable wi' me, and it's main dangersome to handle on the half-cock.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Harte, Bret
That we shed both be hyar, neested snug an’ comfortable as two doons in the heart of a hollow tree, arter all the dangersome scrapes we’ve been passin’ through.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
We’re now on the biggest o’ all oceans, an’ if we stood on the wrong tack, we might niver set eyes on land—or only to be cast away on some dangersome shore.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
"What he clumb arter?" questioned the other negro; "hit's mighty dangersome gittin' up trees when dey got sleet 'pon 'em."
From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)
