Peacock -- Peril through pride, ambition or unwariness. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Astonished that he had not noticed this before, and shocked at the unwariness by which he might have betrayed her into so dangerous a situation, he became at once reconciled to the idea of leaving her in a convent. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
Although I was almost the only one exposed to vexations of this kind, partly because I felt them most keenly, and partly because they succeeded best with me on account of my extreme unwariness, there were other annoyances which all, without exception, had to put up with. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
The first sign of unwariness would begin and end the battle. From Wordnik.com. [Way of the Lawless] Reference
Our unwariness, or our own free choice, has encumbered us with it; and it is in our own hands to undo it again. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. [Vol. I.]] Reference
When a bad custom is begun by bad men sometimes men of better characters are, through unwariness, drawn in to follow them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
His sudden and astounding change from total unwariness to a fighting youth with every sense on the alert was something for which they were unprepared. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win] Reference
Too great a complaisance to evildoers has brought many good people, through unwariness, into a dangerous fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
The only criticism it seems possible to suggest on Scheer's tactics is the unwariness of his pursuit, which might so easily have led to the total destruction of the German fleet. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Sea Power] Reference
Plato is a perfect master of logic and rhetoric; and whenever he errs in either, as I have proved to you he does occasionally, he errs through perverseness, not through unwariness. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
She felt herself to be the representative of abolitionism, and she was determined it should not suffer on account of the unwariness of its advocate -- the ground must be maintained, the point carried at all hazards. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Norton: Or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments.] Reference
The honeyed address, however, by which the conspirators attempted to cajole the Lord into unwariness, indicated that the question they were about to submit was one requiring for its proper answer just such qualities of mind as they pretendingly attributed to Him. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference
But although, as often as his unwariness brought him near to these points of jarring, he would hurry away from them, conscious that here was the one profound difference between them, it was clear to him that insensibly she had moved further than she knew from her father's standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
But although, as often as his unwariness brought him near to these points of jarring, he would hurry away from them, conscious that here was the one profound difference between them; it was clear to him that insensibly she had moved further than she knew from her father's standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Whatever the strict propriety of his conduct in this case, it was sufficiently doubtful to excite a just suspicion that Hillyar would not be deterred, by over-delicacy about the neutrality of the port, from seizing any advantage offered him by the unwariness of his enemy; and so the event proved. From Wordnik.com. [Admiral Farragut] Reference
This, however, was an irresistible testimony, that the resentment shewn to the author was on some other, and less justifiable account, than the publication of that book; so was it a severe satire on the unwariness of the ministry, who had not eyes to discern their justice plainly exposed, and their general proceedings bantered by a Printer, for publishing in defiance of them that same book for which another man stood arraigned. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
A guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
She didn’t like the sound of the sibilant threat and instinctively tried to whip the door closed, but that first instant of unwariness had given him all the edge he needed. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
He made the voyage thither very well, found the watery element agreeable, had his health there, liked the place, was much pleased with his entertainment there, and was returning home with his little cargo, in return for the goods he carried out, when on a sudden, through unwariness, he dropped overboard, and, the vessel being under sail with a brisk gale, was irrecoverably lost, notwithstanding the utmost labour, care, and diligence of the master and sailors to have saved him. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself] Reference
These dilapidations and ruins of the ancient candour and discipline were not taken enough to heart, and repaired with that early care and severity that they might have been, for they were not then incorrigible; but by the remissness of applying remedies to some, and the unwariness in giving a kind of countenance to others, too much of that poison insinuated itself into minds not well fortified against such infection, so that much of the malignity was transplanted, instead of being extinguished, to the corruption of many wholesome bodies, which, being corrupted, spread the diseases more powerfully and more mischievously. ". From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
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