unhazardous

Updated: April 30, 2025

In Bessy's circle the severing of such ties was regarded as an expensive but unhazardous piece of surgery nobody bled to death of the wound.... The footman came back to remind him that his horse was waiting, and Amherst rose to his feet. "Send him back to the stable," he said with a glance at his watch, "and order a trap to take me to the next train."

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree

For the fact that it was this said thirty-first cousin, Mr d'Urberville, who had fallen in love with her, a gentleman not altogether local, whose reputation as a reckless gallant and heartbreaker was beginning to spread beyond the immediate boundaries of Trantridge, lent Tess's supposed position, by its fearsomeness, a far higher fascination that it would have exercised if unhazardous.

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles