overwary

Updated: May 26, 2025

But as he felt his way down the stairs, that were dimly lighted now, he knew he had all his senses with him, for he "spotted" and admired the lurking places that had been designed for undoing of the unwary, or even the overwary. Yasmini's Delhi nest was like a hundred traps in one. "Almost like a pool table," he reflected. "Pocket 'em at both ends and the middle!"

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles