Luk at th' way he acted afther his gun play--leery as hell.
The exposure, the irregular hours for the yardmaster's meals in even the best regulated yards make a good conductor leery about giving up a comfortable run to assume the increased responsibility of a yard.
I never like to say very much about my desire to acquire information from everyone I meet, for experience has made me a little leery of the man who whistles too long for that station.
If you are too ubiquitous with suggestions they will become leery of your good judgment and will unconsciously set the fish tail when you whistle into town.
I knew she'd be glad to see me, but I was rather leery about Jabez.
He was a thorough specimen of theleery London mongrel.
For his leery cunning is so intensely stupid that, in fact, he is as "green" as grass; his leer and his foul mouth keep him in the gutter to his very last day.
And, say what you will, they are kind o' leery when they buy from samples marked in characters--not plain figures.
I am writing you care of your house as I'm a little leery of sending it care of your friend McPherson.
Now, it is possible for a man to mark his samples in characters and to do a one-price business, but you can bet your life that the stranger will be leery of you if your goods are marked in characters.
Fer 'er sweet sake I've gone and chucked it clean: The pubs an' schools an' all that leery game.
There's nothing to be leeryabout here," the man was saying.
The doorkeeper refused to admit me, but I caught his eye, which was glassy, and received a leery wink, while a bottle of bitters nestled cosily in the open bosom of his shirt.
Goodnight was leery of the thicket, and suggested firing a few shots into it.
Every pug is leeryof us since Eddie flimflammed that Battling Smoke; and I told you he'd holler, too!
