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One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

The existence of Jewish partisans was precarious. They lived from hand to mouth, stealing when necessary, arranging secret deliveries of food, and spending hours and even days in holes in the ground w

The first-time precarious fisherman lazily fished dangerous poisonous fish, but soon stopped to shell peas.

The diplomats are in a precarious position.

Their situation is precarious.