cautious

• I am naturally cautious, and my caution may have led me to speak less warmly than I felt, particularly when I found my first appeals unsuccessful. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• Let me be cautious, therefore, I will watch Caliste and Lisette carefully, before I select one as a daughter Just when the good man had arrived at this conclusion, a sound of many voices reached them, and the next minute Margoton Durocher, with her daughters and neighbours, stopped at her door. —  The Young Lord and Other Tales to which is added Victorine Durocher
• He sat up late that night, concocting a skilful, cautious, appealing letter; and as he re-wrote it carefully, all by himself, in the silence, it seemed to him almost as if he were beseeching Nan to reconsider the verdict she had given at Bellagio more than three years before. —  The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
• For he well knew that his kiss would taint his enemy's blood with the same poison that was undermining his own life How cautious, therefore, should a woman be in granting the most innocent liberties! —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
• In the correspondence which passed between the two ministers the king was censured as over-cautious, the Star Chamber as feeble, the judges as over-scrupulous. —  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660

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