All 7 Uses of
precarious
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Not very good for your Uncle Rondo in his precarious condition, I must say.†
Story 1.6 *
- So he didn't do anything that night in the precarious state he was in-just played Casino with Mama and Stella-Rondo and Shirley-T. and gave Shirley-T. a nickel with a head on both sides.†
Story 1.6
- And the recurring sight of hitch-hikers waiting against the sky gave him the flash of a sensation he had known as a child: standing still, with nothing to touch him, feeling tall and having the world come all at once into its round shape underfoot and rush and turn through space and make his stand very precarious and lonely.†
Story 1.8
- Even the thought of his having a stroke right in front of one of the Pilgrimage houses during Pilgrimage Week makes them only sigh, as if to say it's nobody's fault but his own if he wants to be so insultingly and precariously well-preserved.†
Story 1.11
- Brucie swayed precariously over the edge, and Grady caught him by the seat of his overalls.†
Story 2.19
- Looking out for an instant from precarious holds, they took in sharply for memory's sake that berated figure, the mask formed and set on the face, one hand displayed, one jealously clawed under the waist, as if a secret handful had been groveled for, the spread and spotted legs.†
Story 3.29
- By now the path had grown wild and narrow; it made slow going, or rather, the Spaniard's leisurely gaining of the cliff set the pace, not Eugene's backslidings and precarious scramblings.†
Story 3.31
Definition:
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(precarious) unsafe or in danger of getting worse -- especially in danger of falling