The shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Another trap for the unwary is the preparation of the land. From Wordnik.com. [8. Sorghum: Subsistence Types] Reference
As the unwary are allured by the "well-favored harlot's" looks, so Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Etc., etc. Pitfalls and snares for the unwary are all around. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
But a few other wolves saw the fate of their unwary brothers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
But a few other wolves saw that fate of their unwary brothers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
But a few of the wolves saw the fate of their unwary brothers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
The traps are many, and the fools and the unwary are not a few. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The spider uses its silk to build cunning traps for unwary flies. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The apprentice is usually cautious enough, but the old hand grows unwary. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
I was not long in becoming an efficient in the arts these men practiced on the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
I knew nothing of the wickedness of men, of the snares set to entrap unwary young girls. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
That explained that I had seen yet another scam preying on the distracted and the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [I dislike fake 'Dislike Button' scams on Facebook] Reference
She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Was it a trap to entice a prisoner into an unwary climb and then let gravity drag him over?. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Or is this one of those traps for separating the unwary spaceman from his hard-earned credits?. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
Some, knowing its money value, would assume its disguise for the purpose of imposing upon the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Here and there, a cutpurse slunk through the crowd, seeking his own type of bargain -- an unwary victim. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Brizendine cited hundreds of academic articles, making the text appear authoritative to the unwary reader. From Wordnik.com. ['Delusions of Gender' argues that faulty science is furthering sexism] Reference
At high tide they were hidden so that unwary pilots struck them; at low they could be picked over by hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
In an unwary moment Mr. Grosvenor attacked the Commission on the floor of the House in picturesque fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
The ugly and repulsive dame would have few followers, and no need of writers to caution the unwary against her snares. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
A good stout trap -- the kind Forrest had used to advantage before and which had enough teeth in it to crush the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
The "balance of trade" and "the excess of imports over exports" are thus simply pitfalls for the amateur and the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It's easy for unwary parents to get taken in by expensive frills that have little to do with getting a quality education. From Wordnik.com. [Avoid The Party School Trap] Reference
Without noise must we go, and keep close to each other, for the river has many arms stretched out for the unwary stranger. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
In being proactive, Google prevents consumers from being victimized from web sites that deceive or take advantage of the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [David Balto: Regulating Google: Searching for a Solution Without a Problem] Reference
My heart is light and glad tonight, and life seems good and merry; my coffer groans with golden bones I've pulled from the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
Heraldry is an intricate science, full of pitfalls for the unwary, and demands an earnest study of its complex rules and regulations. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
They seemed to have more voracious appetites than other varieties, or else they were more unwary, and consequently more easily caught. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Steering carefully round Cape Horn, the captain skilfully avoided those huge blocks of ice which carry destruction to the unwary sailor. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
By the time it had dawned upon me that the back entrance to the house was the entrance for me, it had also become a trap for the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
The position of these barrages must be known accurately, for to run into them is fatal and at night they are very apt to trap the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
In this book, Markopolos recounts his frustrating, thwarted efforts to warn the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the threat Madoff posed to unwary investors. From Wordnik.com. [No One Would Listen] Reference
Bradley, whose monogram might easily be mistaken by the unwary for that of C.H. Bennett, who followed eight years later, executed but five-and-thirty cuts between 1852 and 1860. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
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