What is "prudently"

Usage examples of "prudently".

Quite prudently, he had absented himself from the country during the deaths of William and of Mary.

I soon recognized another sign that told me when I was nearing the habitation of a sibja or a gau, and whether I wished to visit it or more prudently ride wide around it.

He had struck the first blow himself, but when he found that he was getting the worst of it he prudently took to his heels.

He had, of course, no way to think all this save for subvocalization, but Lumen prudently refrained from comment on the suspicion that he might be in accord with Aristocles on at least some matters concerning the nature of humankind.

Most students, prudently, refused to be trapped into any opinion, pro or con, but there was a small contingent, eight of the thirty-two, who could be relied on to parrot Mrs.

The eunuch suspected some kind of Janissary plot, but the seraskier had prudently decided to keep his terms vague.

All the laughter and playfulness of the past came back again, and the one dream of worthy Madame Desvignes, amid her pride at being a grandmamma, was of completing her life-work, hitherto so prudently carried on, by marrying off Marthe in her turn.

Ned told him, accepted another sup of rum, and, feeling elated, went in search of Melia and the proceeds of his trading, which he had prudently hidden beneath some bushes at the edge of the track.

I played, but prudently, for my capital only consisted of eighteen hundred ducats.

He spoke with a certain bitterness and impatience as though he were suffering from some inward nervous irritation, and Theos, observing this, prudently made no attempt to continue the conversation.

And as she prudently avoided mentioning any thing relative to her knowledge of the Marchese, he had no reason to suppose, even had his mind been sufficiently tranquillized to have reflected, that her story was in the least connected with his own.

Before they were executed, the authorities prudently extracted from Babington the cipher alphabets he had used with Mary.

Africa by the voice of the senate and the approbation of Alexander, he appears prudently to have declined the command of armies and the government of provinces.

It follows that one who thinks and acts prudently as of himself and acknowledges at the same time that he does so from the Lord, is a man, but that person is not who confirms in himself the idea that all he thinks and does is from himself.

Holding the cows tail he leaned on the hairy back and, empty-eyed, blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset.