carefully-cautious

Updated: September 29, 2025

"Ah, who can believe sellers!" said old Michael Mail in a carefully-cautious voice, by way of tiding-over this critical point of affairs. "No one at all," said Joseph Bowman, in the tone of a man fully agreeing with everybody.

Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school