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  • He recognized Yossarian as the drunk who had accosted him roughly at the officers' club one night before the first mission to Bologna, and he swung his displeasure prudently to Dunbar.   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • It seemed prudent to walk her past there in case anyone were awake.   (source)
    prudent = sensible and cautious
  • ...by the law of nations as well as by all reasons of prudent policy, we have as good right to your head as ever one mortal man had against another.   (source)
    prudent = careful and sensible
  • Prudence is one thing, but discourtesy is another.   (source)
    prudence = sensible care
  • A few optimistic storekeepers had prudently boarded windows, split by blast on The Day or broken by looters afterwards, against water and wind.   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • ... and a prudent man would consider taking out an insurance policy.   (source)
    prudent = careful and sensible
  • Prudently we took his advice to follow closely,   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • While intensifying their desire to be set free, the terrible months they had lived through had taught them prudence, and they had come to count less and less on a speedy end of the epidemic.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Embracing the young man publicly, he began a speech about Justice, Courage, Liberty, and Prudence,   (source)
  • warned all those who had a stake in the country and some share of prudence ... against the rising tide of anarchy.   (source)
  • When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason.   (source)
  • This was simple prudence, white men being so much alike at a distance that he could not tell who I might be.   (source)
  • And so I would prudently turn the conversation.   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • Nor must I delay too long to bring my writing to an end; for if my narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a combination of great prudence and great good luck.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • the crowd eyed the stranger unlovingly, but prudently closed their mouths.   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • I have learnt to act prudently.   (source)
  • It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.   (source)
    prudent = careful
  • The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Prudence before everything.   (source)
  • After a while and when it might be prudent,   (source)
    prudent = sensible and done with caution
  • It is not courage that is needed; it is prudence.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • ...but vanity getting the better of all prudence,   (source)
  • I exclaimed, "Why, you are a model of prudence and industry!"   (source)
  • Hindley is too reckless to select his acquaintance prudently:   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • I therefore, though with great prudence, commenced early to ascertain their views and feelings in regard to their condition,   (source)
    prudence = caution
  • where they always prudently shortened sail   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • we want, above all things, rules of prudence in ordinary affairs;   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;   (source)
  • You must think hard and fast, your grace; there is new danger; we need care and prudence.   (source)
  • Prudence was in a frenzy.†   (source)
  • How prudent that seemed to me once.†   (source)
  • Faithful and true and prudent.†   (source)
  • Tonight, however, the manager had the impression the president was hoping for a bit more prudence.†   (source)
  • When he described his finances, it became clear he was spending the money we'd secured for him more quickly than seemed prudent.†   (source)
  • Dear Prudence by the Beatles.†   (source)
  • The Prudential Insurance people wanted to locate their regional headquarters here in the nineteen-fifties.†   (source)
  • Whenever Dr. Dolder's VW was parked in the circular driveway by the Main Academy Building, everyone knew that the doctor was simply exercising his especially Swiss prudence; he was not a drunk, and the few small roads he might have traveled on to drive himself from dinner at the Whites' to Quincy Hall would not have given him much opportunity to maim many of the sober and innocent residents of Gravesend.†   (source)
  • Duty and prudence count.†   (source)
  • It was of course Genevieve's rightful place to conduct all negotiations, but she had thought it prudent to send her husband in her stead: Boarderland was a kingdom; King Arch didn't believe in queendoms.†   (source)
  • That is yours, Prudence.†   (source)
  • Lord Arryn was a prudent man, but I fear that His Grace does not always listen to wise counsel.†   (source)
  • ; lay on our backs and sang "Dear Prudence" to the welcoming and appreciative stars.†   (source)
  • They respond that while I did not request security again after my… discontinuity… the Core authorities felt that it would be prudent to provide protection.†   (source)
  • "It would be more… prudent for you not to be my friend," he explained.†   (source)
  • "This may be going to extremes," he told Dredge, "but to me it seems wise and prudent, in view of the great interests involved."†   (source)
  • "Generally," he finally said, "it is neither wise nor prudent to mouth off to a junior high school teacher.†   (source)
  • Halibut grow very large and can thrash so violently that they can easily kill the people who hook them; hence it is prudent to fire a number of shells through their heads before taking them on board.†   (source)
  • He regarded us from a prudent distance, as if we were strangers with secret resentments.†   (source)
  • Inspector Thomas Mathew was a prudent man.†   (source)
  • In the end, I decided the most prudent moment in the day would be as I served afternoon tea in the drawing room.†   (source)
  • "Demonstrate the patience and prudence which you have heretofore been lacking:' Lorren said flatly, then looked down at the book that lay open on his desk.†   (source)
  • The budget is fiscally prudent, and I, for one, support it.†   (source)
  • Besides, after much thought, it did not seem prudent to let anyone else know of his intentions.†   (source)
  • See Prudence Door.†   (source)
  • Like any prudent tornado-belt family, we have a basement below our one-story home.†   (source)
  • It would be prudent to be in the house when her mother woke up.†   (source)
  • Many windows were broken already, and the prudent thing would have been to remove those that remained, but it was winter and the nights were cold, and without gas and electricity, both of which were in increasingly short supply, windows served to take some of the edge off the chill, and so people left them in place.†   (source)
  • With prudent budgeting it would work out.†   (source)
  • It was wrong to stay here alone with Patch, vow of prudence or not.†   (source)
  • Roran was prudent enough not to rib Eragon further.†   (source)
  • "Prudence," I offered.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life, Bigwig had found himself driven to moderation and prudence.†   (source)
  • That evening they met Deanna and Brian for dinner at Anthony's-a restaurant on the top floor of the Prudential Building that offered wonderful views of the entire city.†   (source)
  • The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent.†   (source)
  • But that wouldn't be prudent or fair to the guy nice enough to have brought me down here.†   (source)
  • Prudence requires this.†   (source)
  • "What's going on here, Ned?" the man asked, prudently stopping by the card table.†   (source)
  • Prudence will be dead.†   (source)
  • "Widdershins is always the prudent choice," said Bert.†   (source)
  • With time she lost her prudence and began to let her adoration show in many ways that did not go unobserved by Esteban.†   (source)
  • That was enough for me to begin to plan a trip to Jiangyong (previously called Yongming) County, where I went in the fall of 2002, with the help of the brilliant and prudent planning of Paul Moore of Crown Travel.†   (source)
  • "Prudence Jane, keep lookin'.†   (source)
  • He took the day off from work and bought some clothes, more office prudent than the flashy ones he bought last summer but still stylish, and he decides that they're right for today.†   (source)
  • Something more prudent, more reasonable, more...†   (source)
  • At the same time, I remember that last night, when I went back to my room, I found the half bottle of malt whisky which Scottish Prudential once gave me, still sitting on my dressing table.†   (source)
  • Hemlatha thought of restraining him and then decided it wasn't prudent to approach a man wielding a knife.†   (source)
  • It is only prudent.†   (source)
  • It seems prudent to me to take a smaller sum, say fifty thousand or so, and hire a high-powered detective agency to find him, or find out what happened to him.†   (source)
  • Wickford had prudently wrought out about six or seven yards sideways before the shaft sank downward once again.†   (source)
  • But it might be prudent for Max to clear his calendar should he be needed to serve in that capacity.†   (source)
  • In Jane Austen's Persuasion I had come across the lines, "she had been forced into prudence in her youth—she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning."†   (source)
  • They also saw a gradual end to slavery as the most prudent way to solve the problem.†   (source)
  • He was prudent with his language.†   (source)
  • "You," said Gillette quickly, the prudent man rising to the baited question.†   (source)
  • Neither prudence nor restraint, but just gravity, had slowed the train, and the driver had been cursing it until, when it began to throw him forward, he blessed it.†   (source)
  • If the Union is administered prudently, the Union laws will be peacefully obeyed.†   (source)
  • If anyone deems it prudent, or thinks he would be happier, to stay on the Moon, that's his privilege.†   (source)
  • It seemed a more prudent course of action than riding with this man.†   (source)
  • Unlike myself who was prudent enough in this over-populous age to sire one son, your aunts—my incredibly philoprogenitive sisters—have brought into the world a total of offspring, all healthy and hungry, all poor.†   (source)
  • Frank very prudently fled.†   (source)
  • He had thought it prudent to keep the shop on, while he was transferring his assets out of the country, to prevent people looking at his affairs too closely.†   (source)
  • If they resist, make them wish they had been more prudent, for three more blasts upon the horn will bring the fifty lancers down from the hills, if they be needed.†   (source)
  • But he kept prudently silent and did not ask for details.†   (source)
  • Radioactivity was uniformly high, so that they judged it prudent to keep the hull submerged.†   (source)
  • Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible?   (source)
    prudent = sensible
  • pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Selden saw that for the moment all he could do was to ... offer sympathy and to counsel prudence.   (source)
  • Zeal without prudence is like a ship adrift.   (source)
    prudence = good sense
  • But he kept prudently still, and ventured no comment.   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • The commonest prudence would counsel immediate flight; but we did not come so far to...   (source)
  • She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older:   (source)
  • If my brother had been a man of activity and prudence, he might have left you a rich woman, ma'am:   (source)
  • When he heard his daughter's announcement, he first prudently corked his beer bottle and then leaped to his feet and had a turn of temper.   (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • But not three yards from shore, I plumped in head over ears; and if ever I was heard of more, it was rather by God's grace than my own prudence.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.   (source)
  • his vanity overcame his prudence.   (source)
  • With Bathsheba a hastened act was a rash act; but, as does not always happen, time gained was prudence insured.   (source)
    prudence = thoughtfulness and caution
  • And so I ventured to ask once more a question which I had asked years before and had gotten such a sharp answer that I had not thought it prudent to meddle in the matter further. Would he abolish slavery?   (source)
    prudent = reasonably cautious or sensible
  • Moreover, I have too good an opinion of Miss Thorpe's prudence to suppose that she would part with one gentleman before the other was secured.   (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Climbers, as a species, are simply not distinguished by an excess of Prudence.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, academic astonishment had somehow vetoed prudence.†   (source)
  • Or simple prudence: my own name would have guaranteed the loss of Aimee, whom I lost in any case.†   (source)
  • Her mind was filled suddenly with feline prudence.†   (source)
  • Phoebe's sister, Prudence, stormed into the house, slamming the door behind her.†   (source)
  • The contents would be disposed of by Hans as prudently as possible.†   (source)
  • "But I have a quirk of prudence in me that's hard to break.†   (source)
  • And she was entirely responsible for Prudence's actions, Kit admitted with a sick heart.†   (source)
  • Your mother also asked Mrs. Cadaver how you and Prudence were.†   (source)
  • "We will ask you some questions, Prudence," said the magistrate quietly.†   (source)
  • It is God we serve by exercising prudence!†   (source)
  • Mrs. Cadaver told her that you and Prudence were fine.†   (source)
  • Suppose they discovered that Prudence too had disobeyed?†   (source)
  • He and Prudence spent all last night and this morning cleaning the house.†   (source)
  • Watching Prudence scurry off toward home, Kit had a moment's misgiving.†   (source)
  • We heard Prudence gasp and her mother say, "I'd like you to meet Mike."†   (source)
  • For she saw that beside him, clinging tightly to his hand, was Prudence Cruff.†   (source)
  • She knew she could never give Prudence even the smallest gift.†   (source)
  • He seemed awfully, awfully young—not much older than Prudence.†   (source)
  • "Will you really let me sew some stitches?" asked Prudence, watching her with shining eyes.†   (source)
  • Prudence was still asking her questions.†   (source)
  • Had it been fair to draw Prudence into her secret world?†   (source)
  • Prudence was in a lather when she came home.†   (source)
  • It was hard now to find the time for stolen visits with Prudence and Hannah.†   (source)
  • Phoebe showed me the note left for Prudence.†   (source)
  • With a black kitten cradled in her hands, Prudence watched them find a safe corner for the hornbook.†   (source)
  • "Prudence, I honestly cannot say," her father said.†   (source)
  • She was invisible to Prudence and Phoebe, though.†   (source)
  • She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet.†   (source)
  • Kit smiled to see it working its charm on Prudence.†   (source)
  • Prudence said, "Well, I have more important things to worry about, I can assure you.†   (source)
  • From the kitchen, we heard Prudence open the front door.†   (source)
  • She had been wanting an excuse to take Prudence to Hannah.†   (source)
  • Phoebe's sister, Prudence, was seventeen years old, but she acted like her mother.†   (source)
  • What fun it would be to make something warm and pretty for Prudence, she thought with longing.†   (source)
  • All that night I thought about Phoebe and Prudence and Mr. Winterbottom.†   (source)
  • Prudence, dragging at her mother's hand, gazed back imploringly as they passed.†   (source)
  • "We've got to hurry," Phoebe said, "before Prudence or my father comes home."†   (source)
  • But Prudence — " "Yes," agreed Hannah quietly.†   (source)
  • It was furry and soft as the kitten that Prudence had held in her arms that summer afternoon.†   (source)
  • Prudence started asking a million questions.†   (source)
  • Prudence had been there, Hannah told her, but had not dared to wait for a lesson.†   (source)
  • We heard her say to Prudence, "Where are they?†   (source)
  • "Prudence—did she say who she's bringing?"†   (source)
  • "Then Prudence and I will make you a dress," promised Kit blithely.†   (source)
  • "Hannah," she said softly over Prudence's head, "I am afraid to go on like this.†   (source)
  • "Bros-Len Gas, 350, 1 hr," Prudence read, and —Mac Che, 325, 45 min," on and on and on.†   (source)
  • But then Prudence came home and opened her note.†   (source)
  • Prudence was awestruck at her own handiwork.†   (source)
  • Yes, the name on the first line was in her own hand, large and clear for Prudence to copy.†   (source)
  • "Prudence will be home any minute, and we still don't know which is the right Bickle."†   (source)
  • I could hear Prudence moving things in the freezer.†   (source)
  • There was something strange about Prudence.†   (source)
  • Prudence opened the freezer compartment and said, "Look at this."†   (source)
  • Why did you choose to write the name of Prudence Cruff?†   (source)
  • Mr. Winterbottom, Prudence, Phoebe, and I all said, "Your son?"†   (source)
  • Prudence ran back to fling her arms about Hannah.†   (source)
  • "If I get finished — " Prudence breathed.†   (source)
  • Prudence rushed out of the house saying, "She called, she called, she called!†   (source)
  • I might as well tell it, Prudence has never been what you'd call bright.†   (source)
  • Prudence made the spaghetti, while I helped Phoebe set the table.†   (source)
  • Hannah and Prudence — they are my friends!†   (source)
  • "Prudence," she suggested instead, "you could learn to read by yourself if you really wanted to."†   (source)
  • Prudence demanded, as the two walked slowly back along the path.†   (source)
  • My Prudence's name, written over and over.†   (source)
  • Nat always is in a hurry, and thee, and now Prudence.†   (source)
  • Prudence Cruff, does it say, right out as it should?†   (source)
  • But Hannah and Prudence were fast friends now, and she knew that the reading went companionably on.†   (source)
  • "Can you sew, truly?" demanded Prudence, overwhelmed at still another accomplishment.†   (source)
  • "You don't really believe that, do you Prudence?"†   (source)
  • "Maybe," whispered Prudence, and then she turned and ran.†   (source)
  • "Now Prudence," the magistrate continued.†   (source)
  • She could scarcely bear to look at Prudence, but she forced herself to raise her head.†   (source)
  • Completely disarmed, Prudence went down on her knees.†   (source)
  • But — oh, I beg you send Prudence away from this horrible place!†   (source)
  • Prudence had further news of the culprits.†   (source)
  • Leaning over the table, Prudence set the pen on the copybook.†   (source)
  • With one trusting look up at his face, Prudence walked steadily toward the magistrate's table.†   (source)
  • "I'm sick and tired of hearing about Prudence being bewitched.†   (source)
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