The evolutionary theme is a favourite with him: the grand pageant of humanity groping from Piltdown to Beacon Hill, winning in a million years twoprecarious inches of forehead.
And indeed the Situation of your Country, I fear is likely to be such as to render the Conveyance of Letters precarious and a free Communication of Sentiments unsafe.
To insist upon this would seem hard and unjust, and to leave the Matter to be settled at a distant Time would be precarious and unsafe for them.
Chambers considers, a very precarious state, and my weakness increases, of course, under the remedies which successive attacks render necessary.
Scully is something better, he lies, I fear, in a very precarious state, while dearest Miss Mitford's letters from the deathbed of her father make my heart ache as surely almost as the post comes.
The organic industries, typified by cotton-spinning, on the contrary, are always in precarious dependence upon the year's harvests.
Everywhere on the ladder is trouble, save in careful steps; and since human progress is so illusory, many honest persons rather fear to fall than aspire too eagerly, or felicitate themselves on precarious elevations.
Governing under conditions of ideological anarchy is at best a precarious effort--a makeshift, a pitiable building upon sand.
No precarious legal personality was attributed to the family, the village, and the hui, which could be extirpated by a mere edict.
The car's sudden twist threw Lad clean off hisprecarious balance on the seat, and hurled him against one of the rear doors.
And he made his precarious way to the sidewalk once more.
It represents a precarious balance which has been struck between those forces of radicalism and conservatism, of progress and reaction, for whose eternal conflict France pre-eminently has furnished a theatre since 1789.
Schleswig and Holstein had been joined with Denmark under a precarious form of union since the Middle Ages.
Only a close understanding between the ministries at Vienna and Budapest can be depended upon, in the last analysis, to avert an utter breakdown of the admittedly precarious military establishment.
The condition of the Jews in the East was never so precarious nor so difficult as it was in the West.
But these colonies had but a precarious and transitory existence; fisheries alone succeeded, and French commerce continued insignificant, circumscribed, and domestic, notwithstanding the increasing requirements of luxury at court.
With the passing of that phase he was able to consider the situation with a cooler brain, and it now seemed to him that his position was not so precarious as he deemed it in the light of that shock.
It was this precarious moment of his fortunes which his star (his evil star, he insisted on that) selected to bring him into juxtaposition with the man whose life was to be inexorably mingled with his own from that time henceforward.
For two hours the little knot of heart-sick humiliated officers and men lay in the precarious shelter of the donga and looked out at the bullet-swept plain and the line of silent guns.
The men fell upon their faces and huddled close to the earth, too happy if some friendly ant-heap gave them a precarious shelter.
For a long time Gaberones, which is eighty miles north of Mafeking, remained his headquarters, and thence he kept upprecarious communications with the besieged garrison.
The camp of the main column was only four miles away, however, and the bodyguard, having sent messages of their precarious position, did all they could to make a defence until help could reach them.
They were isolated from the world, and had no means save precarious smuggling of renewing their supplies of ammunition.
Even while he was running, even while I was engaged in maintaining a precarious seat upon his neck, I had found time to hope fervently that we should not encounter an automobile.
He delighted to honor with titles and emoluments his generals, magistrates, and senators; and his precarious indulgence communicated some rays of their glory to the persons of their wives and children.
The accidents to which the precarious subsistence of the city was continually exposed in a winter navigation and an open road, had suggested to the genius of the first Cæsar the useful design which was executed under the reign of Claudius.
As he lay in a precarious state, the thought naturally occurred to him, "What will become of this poor child if I am called away?
Edward Forster had not concealed from her the precarious tenure of his existence, and since their return from London had made her fully acquainted with all the particulars connected with her own history.
Her incurable disease was for the time forgotten; and although pain would occasionally draw down the muscles of her face, as soon as the pang was over, so was the remembrance of her precarious situation.
The Norman barons had refused to strike a blow for John, and the cities had shown but a very passive and precarious loyalty to him.
He was a man of a cold and hard disposition, but full of practical wisdom, and conscious that his precarious claim to the crown must be secured by winning the confidence of his subjects.
Dermot was triumphant, and sent for more auxiliaries, aspiring to evict Roderic O'Connor of Connaught from the precarious throne of High King of Ireland.
But the western half they handed over to "an unwise thegn named Ceolwulf," who bought for a short space the precarious title of king by paying great tribute.
But knowing that his seat was precarious he did homage to the English king, and made him all the promises that his father had given to Edward I.
His rather precarious conquest of the county of Maine, his long quarrels with Philip I.
There was no time to debate upon terms; and those granted to Massena by Melas were so unusually favourable, that perhaps they should have made him aware of the precarious state of the besieging army.
She had been captured by Shan Rhue's ruffians, and she knew that she was in a precarious predicament, for she could hope for no mercy from Ted's merciless and beaten enemy.
The night dragged wearily on for Ted could not sleep, for thinking of the dead man in the next room, and his own precarious position.
It was a most precarious position, for if the saddle slipped farther he would go under and be trampled and kicked to death before any one could reach him.
But nature herself, in that upper district, seemed to have had an eye to nothing besides mining; and even the natural hillside was all sliding gravel and precarious boulder.
As courage and intelligence are the two qualities best worth a good man's cultivation, so it is the first part of intelligence to recognise our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be not at all abashed before the fact.
This sloth, however, is not so much a vice inherent in the character of the nation as a result of its old vagrant andprecarious existence, and of its limited wants.
This was certainly a very precarious resource, but there is a special providence for travellers.
So that these primary schools existed in many instances, though certainly in a precarious and languishing state.
These were terms so harsh, as to render even the precarious alliance of France preferable to submission.
In short, Dolgorucki carried back to his imperial master the hastily conceived opinion, that the French Emperor was retreating, and felt himself in a precarious posture.
Finding a precarious foothold, he took out his flash and closely scrutinized his surroundings.
Granger, having got a precarious grip on his nerves, laughed shakily.
It determined in him, the way this came from her and what it somehow did for her-it determined in him a speech that would have seemed a few minutes before precarious and in questionable taste.
But small outlying settlements hereabout were precarious places to live in, and the persistent damans generally caused them to be abandoned entirely from time to time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precarious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
