He is also, under existing conditions, very insecure. An enormously wealthy merchant may be - often is - at every moment of his life at the mercy of things that are not under his control.
Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising.
After the quarryman's death it was found that much of the money left to him had been squandered in specula- tion and in
insecure investments made through the influence of friends.
Accordingly he held his way through the silent streets of the village, directly to the small and
insecure building that contained all the unfortunate debt ors and some of the criminals of the county, and where justice was administered to such unwary applicants as were so silly as to throw away two dollars in order to obtain one from their neighbors.
And so at last it did; but my fingers had clutched the coping in time; had grabbed it even as the
insecure pyramid crumbled and left me dangling.
Some houses which had become
insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body.
Hewet could see that there was very little use in going on with the conversation, for it was obvious that Evelyn did not wish to say anything in particular, but to impress upon him an image of herself, being, for some reason which she would not reveal, unhappy, or
insecure. He was very tired, and a pale waiter kept walking ostentatiously into the middle of the room and looking at them meaningly.
As one replaces an object of
insecure equilibrium, so he carefully replaced his belief on its shaky pedestal and carefully stepped back from it so as not to shake or upset it.
Whether the prince was really being thus bled by the absent captain, he could not be certain, but there was something
insecure and secretive about Saradine that made the tale by no means incredible.
On the instant he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the left; and in that instant, tottering on the
insecure footing, with front feet slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half turn, sprang to the left, and dropped squarely down to the tiny gravel bed.
He had felt his position
insecure, for there was a strong republican element in that part of the country; but now the conversion of Jean-Pierre made him safe.
In a remote corner a broad, pale face and a bulky shape could be made out, uncouth, and as if
insecure on the low seat on which it rested.