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Definition
nervous about (or distrustful of) someone or something
- He got up and soon was walking warily in pursuit of the last lantern before it disappeared among the trees.5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Ride of the Rohirrim (19% in)
- Be wary still!5.1 -- Book 5 Chapter 1 -- Minas Tirith (50% in)
- Indeed his only trouble was to be 'wary' according to the counsel of Gandalf, and not to let his tongue wag freely after the manner of a hobbit among friends.5.1 -- Book 5 Chapter 1 -- Minas Tirith (82% in)
- Remnants of an older time they be, living few and secretly, wild and wary as the beasts.5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Ride of the Rohirrim (16% in)
- The Wild Men had put out a screen of wary hunters, so that no orc or roving spy should learn of the movements in the hills.5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Ride of the Rohirrim (43% in)
- The captains came; and then out of the trees crept warily other pukel-shapes so like old Ghan that Merry could hardly tell them apart.5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Ride of the Rohirrim (51% in)
- First, be wary!5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Ride of the Rohirrim (52% in)
- It was a wary creature, difficult to see, but Sam had little doubt about it: he longed to get his hands on its neck.6.2 -- Book 6 Chapter 2 -- The Land of Shadow (81% in)
- They went first to the little spring, and then climbing warily up they came to the road at the point where it swung east towards the Isenmouthe twenty miles away.6.2 -- Book 6 Chapter 2 -- The Land of Shadow (85% in)
- If he had looked back, he might have seen not far below Gollum turn again, and then with a wild light of madness glaring in his eyes come, swiftly but warily, creeping on behind, a slinking shadow among the stones.6.3 -- Book 6 Chapter 3 -- Mount Doom (81% in)
There are no more uses of "wary" in The Return of the King.
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