All 4 Uses of
wary
in
All the Pretty Horses
- He didn't look at her until the Arabian was alongside his horse, stepping with its neck arched and one eye on the mesteno not with wariness but some faint equine disgust.†
Chpt 2 *wariness = caution or distrust
- Knowing this in her I should have been more wary where you were concerned.†
Chpt 4wary = careful, nervous, or distrustful
- He boarded the horse at a stable out beyond the barrios south of the railtracks and told the patron to be wary of the horse as he was at best half broke and the man nodded and called to the boy but John Grady could tell he had his own ideas about horses and would come to his own conclusions.†
Chpt 4
- In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay smooth and rectilinear as the stones of ancient ruins and the water from their muzzles dripped and rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horse†
Chpt 4
Definition:
careful or nervous about something