dangersome
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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 Mark Twain
"What he clumb arter?" questioned the other negro; "hit's mighty dangersome gittin' up trees when dey got sleet 'pon 'em."
From Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland
I've had high goes with it many a time, but its plaguy dangersome, and I don't pracTISE it now but seldom.
From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“How can you find your way?” asked Mrs. Bridges, to whom this was a mortally dangersome journey.
From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Hamlin Garland
No," answered Fortner, "but we're a-comin' ter what is every bit an' grain ez dangersome.
From The Red Acorn by John McElroy
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