dangersome
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"Water ain't dangersome, nowise," retorted the elderly Persimmon, with a snarling smile.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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
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
These dangersome days have given her sore affliction by way of parting comrades of her childhood, and others whom she has much affected.
From Thankful Blossom by Bret Harte
It's moor coomfortable wi' me, and it's main dangersome to handle on the half-cock.
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte
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