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Updated: May 28, 2025
Often the idea recurs of the precariousness of the result; by how little the world might have lost one of its ornaments by one sharp pang, or one chance meeting, or any other among the countless accidents among which man runs his course.
It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which all American property is possest. But let our imaginations transport us a few moments to Boston; that seat of wretchedness will teach us wisdom, and instruct us forever to renounce a power in whom we can have no trust.
There is no fear of our calling any man master if we once look facts fair in the face. The precariousness of our best friendships, the brittle substance out of which they are all composed and constructed, and the daily accidents and injuries to which they are all exposed all this is the daily distress of all true and loving hearts.
It is certain, indeed, that her disposition was rather inclined to serious than the contrary, and that, joined with the reflections which her good understanding was perpetually presenting her with, on the uncertainty of her birth, the precariousness of her dependance, and her enforced quitting the only person from whom she could expect the means of any solid establishment in the world, had rendered her sometimes extremely thoughtful, even in the midst of those pleasures that are ordinarily most enchanting to one of her sex and age.
He ushered me into a little parlour lighted by two lamps, that bore every evidence of having been recently vacated. Its features somehow bespoke a struggle for existence; as though its occupants had worried much and loved much. It was a room best described by the word "home" home made more precious by a certain precariousness.
It is undoubtedly a nervous sense of the precariousness of the existing social system which accounts for the present strenuous opposition to a fair and square consideration of its merits and defects. Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.
It is hardly necessary to say that the precariousness of Prince Leopold's health, combined as it was with an amiable disposition and intellectual gifts, only served to endear him the more to his family and friends.
The precariousness of the long lines of communications between British India and the army in Afghanistan a source of danger which from the first had disquieted cautious soldiers was making itself seriously felt, and constituted for Macnaghten another cause of solicitude.
Sohlberg or any one else had appeared the original flare of passion had undergone a form of subsidence, though not noticeable enough to be disturbing. Aileen thought and thought, but she did not investigate. Indeed, because of the precariousness of her own situation as a social failure she was afraid to do so. With the arrival of Mrs.
She was full of another thought the vagueness, the precariousness of the chance that even in Metz had brought them together. "How lucky...." "How lucky what?" How lucky? How lucky? He begged, implored, frowned, tried to peer. He would not let her rest. "Why should you hide what you think? I don't like it." Oh, no, he did not like it.
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