incautiousness

Example Sentences

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We lay till late at night by our small camp fire, and watched the terribly-beautiful scene, regretting our incautiousness or neglect, which had entailed such fearful destruction.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

This he did with a wild incautiousness, the patience of the true scout overcome by his anxiety to do what he intended as soon as possible.

From The Secret Battle by Herbert, A. P.

"The incautiousness of these conspirators has already saved you, empress," said Lestocq.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

I well remember how, one day, through my incautiousness, I very nearly made the end of a St. Sebastian.

From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

Doth love's incautiousness in her So irremissible appear?

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry