dangersome
Example Sentences
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I've had high goes with it many a time, but it's 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 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
I'll trust you, sir; but my work is dangersome, and please God I should get killed, will you do the same for Martha and little Nan?'
From Fern's Hollow by Stretton, Hesba
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
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
So, Phoebe, gal, gi’e me yar word to keep dark, for de case am a dangersome, an a desprit one.”
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
