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He left his luggage at the station, warily determined to look at the inn before committing himself to it. When I say the town, I mean the towns; there being two at Carcassonne, perfectly distinct, and each with excellent claims to the title.
And he trailed warily back to hide himself behind a rock and watch till dark in front of his little commoosie.
Without response, a grim smile wreathing his thin, hard lips, Stryker thrust one hand into his pocket, and withdrawing a coin, tossed it to the waiting waterman. Whereupon Kirkwood backed warily to the rail, abandoned the capstan-bar and dropped over the side. Nodding to the boatman, "The Steen landing quickly," he said in French.
He too gave it as his opinion that his master had been forestalled by the Dowager's people, and without presuming to advise Garnache to go warily a piece of advice that Garnache would have resented, to the extent perhaps of boxing the fellow's ears he determined, there and then, to keep a close watch upon his master, and under no circumstances, if possible, permit him to leave the Sucking Calf that night.
She did not go out. She stayed there through the terrible moments that followed, making no sound, and missing no move with those tragic, wide eyes. The adversaries advanced once more, Big Jack stepping back. The two circled warily, looking for an opening. They made a striking contrast. "David and Goliath," somebody whispered.
Though he slowly reasoned that the danger was remote, or at least not immediate, a den of dragons, be they live, dead or sleeping, is not to be entered lightly. And he could not imagine why the tiger had brought him here. At last he began to descend, though warily, all the time watching the silent shapes for any sign of movement or consciousness. There were none.
Here and it is the same at Runswick one is obliged to walk warily during the painter's season, for fear of either obstructing the view of the man behind the easel you have just passed, or out of regard for the feelings of some girls just in front. There are often no more chances of standing still in Staithes than may be enjoyed on a popular golf-links on a fine Saturday afternoon.
But surely it will aid thee much in carrying through this scheme that thou wast bred amid monks, and churchmen, and art used to their ways of act and speech. Yea, lad, with a bold step and an easy manner thou wilt be safer beneath my cloak in the open than if by secret paths thou essayedst never so warily to cheat the Sarrasin's sentinels."
"Wonder what's inside," said Clint in a low voice. "Spooks," suggested Amy, none too bravely. "Shut up! Would you go in?" "Sure, I would. Come on." Very cautiously they edged past the crazy door, their hands stretched warily ahead. There was a sudden scurrying sound from the darkness and they jumped back and held their breaths. "P-probably a rat," whispered Amy. "Or a squirrel," said Clint.
For Denis, who had to regain his inn without attracting notice, there was real danger as well as mere discomfort in the walk; and he went warily and boldly at once, and at every corner paused to make an observation. He had been for some time threading a lane so narrow that he could touch a wall with either hand, when it began to open out and go sharply downward.
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