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  • She is the wife of a presidential candidate and she should know that she needs to be more carefu.

    Obama to GOP: 'Lay off my wife' 2008

  • July 23, 2008 at 3:41 am bedder b carefu.l Discwurlld trolls r nawt caretrollz.

    Tweet tweet - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • And we maun be carefu 'wi' such boys as that, tae.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • He can do nothing, d'ye ken, to help, because he's not saved his siller and been carefu 'with it.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • Jamie had aye been carefu 'wi' his siller; when he knew the wife was going to present him wi 'a bairn he'd done his part to mak' ready.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • But he's no rich, and he maun be carefu 'wi' his siller, else the wife and the bairns wull be gae'in wi'oot things he wants them to have.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • But the lad's no a bad lad after a '; and he needs some carefu' body to look after him.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • I am a carefu 'man, as is weel ken'd, and industrious, as the hale town can testify; and I can win my crowns, and keep my crowns, and count my crowns, wi' onybody in the Saut Market, or it may be in the Gallowgate.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • Fayther said £30 a year wad do, wi 'a carefu' hand to guide it.

    A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • My Maggy's no ane 'at needs luikin' efter; an 'a body had need to be carefu' an 'no interfere wi' the Lord's herdin ', for he ca's himsel' the Shepherd o 'the sheep, an' weel as I loe her I maun lea 'him to lead them wha follow him wherever he goeth.

    David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

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