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I was wise in the matter of drink. I was discreet. Never again would I drink to excess. I knew the dangers and the pitfalls of John Barleycorn, the various ways by which he had tried to kill me in the past. But all that was past, long past. Never again would I drink myself to stupefaction. Never again would I get drunk.
But to be acquainted with the vices of the world, and communicate them to innocent souls liable to err; to warn and call the attention of the sensitive and the tottering to the thorns, the flints, the vermin, and the pitfalls which beset their path, that is a proper thing to do in season, and I call it gentlemanly scandal although many who read these lines will perhaps prefer to call it nonsense.
She said, when he paused: "That's Adam, there, on the mantelpiece, Papa. Six feet four and a half he is. It don't show in a picture." "The Navy's rough kind of life, Myrtle. I hope he ain't picked up bad habits. The world's full of pitfalls." "Sure," said Mrs. Egg, shearing the whisper. "Only Dammy ain't got any sense about cards.
In the forest feeding grounds of Polus Mountains, between the Bontoc culture area and the Banawi area to the south, these pitfalls are very abundant, there frequently being two or three within a space one rod square. A deadfall, called "il-tib'," is built for hogs near the sementeras in the mountains.
So now the boy was going back to Mercer to plunge into the pitfalls and limitless shades of concealment. He did it with a hard purpose of endurance, without hope, and also without complaint. "If I can just avoid out-and-out lying," he told himself, "I can take my medicine. But if I have to lie !" He knew the full bitterness of his medicine when he went to see Lily...
"No," she would always reply, "no! Never will I be so base and perfidious to my husband!" Unfortunate woman! little did she know of the pitfalls which stand ever ready to swallow up wanderers from the path of virtue. Before a week had passed, she listened to this project, which at first had filled her with horror, with a willing ear, and even began to devise means for its speedy execution.
There are various methods employed for trapping, or otherwise destroying. Pitfalls are the most common, as they are simple, and generally fatal. Elephants are thirsty creatures, and when in large herds they make considerable roads in their passage towards a river. They are nearly always to be found upon the same track when nightly approaching the usual spot for drinking or for a bath.
And yet on the very first day of his, Pierre's, arrival, the doors closed upon him with a bang; he felt himself sinking into a hostile sphere, full of traps and pitfalls. One and all cried out to him "Beware!" as if he were incurring the greatest dangers in setting one foot before the other.
"'Evening, Major, sir," mumbled Roger, his face beet red. "We er ah were just telling this Earthworm unit about the Academy, sir. Some of its pitfalls." "Some of the cadets are going to fall into a pit if they don't learn to keep their mouths shut!" snapped Connel. He glared at Tom, Astro, and Roger, then wheeled sharply to face the three quaking freshmen cadets.
There is not even a grave, not a heap of dry bones, not a pinch of dust, with which I can claim kindred, unless I find it here!" "This is sad," said the old man, "this strong yearning, and nothing to gratify it. Yet, I warn you, do not seek its gratification here. There are delusions, snares, pitfalls, in this life. I warn you, quit the search."
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