All 3 Uses of
wary
in
Treasure Island
- "That?" returned Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass.†
Chpt 14 *
- I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment, till, thinking I was now got far enough to the south, I took the cover of some thick bushes and crept warily up to the ridge of the spit.†
Chpt 22
- Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(wary) careful or nervous about something