Careful

Usage examples of chary.

At Bahia Mar, I threaded my way past some parties I wanted to escape, and when I was aboard the Busted Flush, I was chary about turning on too many lights.

March, though of a charier hospitality, welcomed Fulkerson with a grateful sense of his admiration for her husband.

Chavigni, seizing the opportunity, told us it was because we were in love, and lovers are known to be chary of their words.

And doubtless Madame de la Saone would have been more chary of her person if she had been able to enchant with her face like you.

We are chary of well-spoken passengers who, at a given signal, become merciless pirates.

This statement Nogam had neglected to amplify, and Victor had been chary of too close questioning, lest it elicit too much in the hearing of others.

Other capital Richard had at his command, but already he was growing chary of encroachments upon principal.

They say she seemed chary, but was only likely waitin' for him to raise the price.

The American people have been chary of the word loyalty, perhaps because they regard it as the correlative of royalty.

The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.

There was a lette Vere from Alexa, and another from Jill, telling her Brigadoon was taking a one-week charier to Martinique would be in Saint Lucia again the following Saturday.

They had at first made a constant demand on her purse, her talents and her time: then she grew tired of them, and felt more and more chary of being identified with a set which was in such ill-odour with that very same jeunesse doree whom Candeille had desired to please.

It seems my maternal grandfather grows chary of protecting his pure-blooded heir.