Both Uses of
precarious
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.†
Chpt 23
- Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.†
Chpt 28 *
Definition:
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(precarious) unsafe or in danger of getting worse -- especially in danger of falling