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Prudent in sentence

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CHAPTER XIX'THOU HAST HID THESE THINGS from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes,' thought Levin while talking with his wife that night.
He has grown into a first-rate, prudent landlord, as I recognize; in farming matters he is even stingy, but only in farming.
"There is evil in this world, it is quite true; but, my good woman, it must also be said that workpeople are never prudent.
Well, it will be prudent to form, outside their good pleasure, an association of mutual help on which we can count at least in cases of immediate need."
Maheude, notwithstanding the caution of a prudent housekeeper, treated him with consideration, as a young man who paid regularly and neither drank nor gambled, with his nose always in a book; she spread abroad his reputation among the neighbours as an educated lad, a reputation which they abused by asking him to write their letters.
They contented themselves with this method of purification--a prudent and politic method.
This was also a prudent sop thrown to the miners, who hated him.
In any event, whatever his method was, it seemed prudent to me that he use this method without delay.
It's prudent, because we have no idea what the future holds."
Conseil, everlastingly prudent, "force-fed" himself; and despite the menu, Ned Land didn't waste a bite.
She was prudent enough to lay by a thousand crowns, with which the first three bills were paid when they fell due; but the fourth, by chance, came to the house on a Thursday, and Charles, quite upset, patiently awaited his wife's return for an explanation.
At dusk, Julien went to the cure for his divinity lesson, but did not think it prudent to say anything to him of the strange proposal that had been made to his father.
We need not augur ill for Julien's future; he hit upon the correct form of words of a cunning and prudent hypocrisy.
What really and completely dismayed the poor Mayor of Verrieres was that he knew that people joked publicly in the town at the expense of his attachment to _hard cash_: M. Valenod was as generous as a robber, whereas he had shown himself in a prudent rather than a brilliant light in the last five or six subscription lists for the Confraternity of Saint Joseph, the Congregation of Our Lady, the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, and so forth.
All the first steps taken by our hero who fancied himself so prudent were, like his choice of a confessor, foolish in the extreme.
This was only prudent, in the master's interest as well as the pupil's; but more than anything else it was a test.
The most prudent course was to retire; but the idea filled Julien with horror.
Now that it is quite understood that the character of Mathilde is impossible in our age, no less prudent than virtuous, I am less afraid of causing annoyance by continuing the account of the follies of this charming girl.)
'They will be sending me out of the room again,' thought Julien; but the prudent chairman himself had forgotten Julien's presence and indeed his existence.
What guarantee will you give me?'Julien went on in sharp, firm accents, seeming to abandon for an instant the prudent forms of diplomacy.
He is wise, prudent, good; it is I who have done more wrong than could be imagined.'
This entirely novel interest made a prudent creature of him.
'It is fated,' he thought, 'that even in their best moments, these people must find a way of hurting me.'Mathilde put up a firm resistance to all her father's prudent plans.
'I cannot blame M. de La Mole,' said Julien when he had finished reading it; 'he is just and prudent.
'My maid, who is almost as prudent as yourself, procured a passport for herself, and it is in the name of Madame Michelet that I have travelled post.''And Madame Michelet found it so easy to make her way in to me?''Ah!
The prudent advocate was afraid for a moment of being murdered himself.
His only son, the youth introduced in the preceding chapter, had entered the army, and had arrived in his native country, but a short time before the commencement of hostilities, with the reinforcements the ministry had thought it prudent to throw into the disaffected parts of North America.
A third, and a more wary portion, remained in the place of their nativity, with a prudent regard to their ample possessions, and, perhaps, influenced by their attachments to the scenes of their youth.
As the language of the officers appeared to be sincere, and such as disappointed men in their rough occupations are but too apt to use, the Whartons thought it prudent to discontinue the subject.
"Ah!Dunwoodie," added the sobbing girl, "you are about to risk your life in battle; remember that there is one heart whose happiness is built on your safety; brave I know you are: be prudent - ""For your sake?" inquired the delighted youth.
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