dangersome
Example Sentences
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"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)
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 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
"Water ain't dangersome, nowise," retorted the elderly Persimmon, with a snarling smile.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
Well, den," she resumed, "Quail start inter de meanness he bin hatchin' up, an' he say, sezee, 'Uncle Wolf, deys a man down dar below whar gittin' ter be dangersome.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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 Harte, Bret
