Both Uses of
wary
in
Hard Times
- Hushed in expectancy, she kept her wary gaze upon the stairs; and seldom so much as darkly shook her right mitten (with her fist in it), at the figure coming down.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- With her dark eyes and her hook nose warily in advance of her, Mrs. Sparsit softly crushed her way through the thick undergrowth, so intent upon her object that she probably would have done no less, if the wood had been a wood of adders.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(wary) careful or nervous about something