What is "precautions"

Usage examples of "precautions".

Alas perhaps after all it would have been better if you had not taken any precautions, for surely you are not born for my misfortune, and you could never have abandoned the mother and the child.

Thus one cannot enjoy any little freedoms without great precautions and the aid of cunning procuresses, who have to be well paid, as they would be cruelly punished if they were found out.

The requisite precautions were taken for the night, and Ayrton, Mulrady, Wilson and John Mangles undertook in turn to keep watch until sunrise.

In that manner you will not run the risk of meeting one another, but you need not observe these precautions for long, if you wish, for my friend is extremely fond of you, and has a great desire to make your acquaintance.

Mithridates used these precautions, and that these precautions were efficacious?

I myself have made use of them, that I might not be poisoned at Naples, at Palermo, and at Smyrna -- that is to say, on three several occasions when, but for these precautions, I must have lost my life.

Then the idea struck me that he had not taken these precautions, and had simply thrown it in a corner.

Many attendants or apparent precautions would prevent the villain from the attempt, and M.

That criminal catastrophe on the railway made Ayrton take sundry precautions, which had hitherto been unnecessary.

It need hardly be said these precautions were adopted without the knowledge of Lady Helena and Mary Grant, as Lord Glenarvan did not wish to alarm them.

I saw clearly he was a dangerous individual, and I must take precautions against him.

No doubt Chris had taken precautions to stop an enemy from posing as himself and gaining access to the safety-deposit box.

But I want more than just precautions taken where Milisant is concerned.

I have taken precautions of my own, yet for the guards, you may thank my father.

I seem to be in the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight and no precautions can guard against.