circumspection

• Yet she recognised that such attempt taxed all her circumspection, all her imaginative sympathy and tact. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• Even when closely pursued, his circumspection is amazing; he shakes the branches to see if they will bear him, and then bending an overhanging bough down by throwing his weight gradually along it, he makes a bridge from the tree he wishes to quit to the next On the ground the Orang always goes laboriously and shakily on all fours. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
• Here we do not know of the Mafia But you advise us to be careful Everywhere, illustrissimo signore, it is well to be what you call the circumspection. —  Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
• Mr. Zriny did not consider all this; his circumspection, therefore, is surely not very great. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
• I have endeavored to proceed with the greatest circumspection, and have acted only in an extreme and exceptional case, carefully following the course which I have marked out for myself as a general rule, faithfully to execute all laws, though passed over my objections on the score of constitutionality. —  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson

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