Both Uses of
precarious
in
The Lords of Discipline
- I bobbed precariously on the immigrant flood; I smelled of Kilkenny, the back seats of station wagons, and the chlorine of YMCA pools.†
Chpt 1.2 *precariously = in an unsafe or unsure manner
- During speeches to the Corps, the indisputable power of his own rhetoric would affect him so viscerally that he would dance along a thin, precarious edge of control in constant danger of plunging headlong into much darker and more radical passions.†
Chpt 1.5precarious = unsafe or unsure
Definition:
unsafe or in danger of getting worse -- especially in danger of falling