All 4 Uses of
wary
in
The Scarlet Letter
- "We will judge warily," said Bellingham, "and look well what we are about to do.†
p. 76.1warily = in a nervous or distrustful manner
- He groped along as stealthily, with as cautious a tread, and as wary an outlook, as a thief entering a chamber where a man lies only half asleep—or, it may be, broad awake—with purpose to steal the very treasure which this man guards as the apple of his eye.†
p. 87.8wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- "Freely then, and plainly," said the physician, still busy with his plants, but keeping a wary eye on Mr. Dimmesdale, "the disorder is a strange one; not so much in itself nor as outwardly manifested,—in so far, at least as the symptoms have been laid open to my observation.†
p. 91.4
- The magistrate, after a wary observation of the darkness—into which, nevertheless, he could see but little further than he might into a mill-stone—retired from the window.†
p. 100.7 *
Definition:
careful or nervous about something