The trait of being cautious and watchful.
1 She had tried to make him divine all this in the chariness of her promise to write.
2 One great thing undoubtedly was, the chariness of herself and her conduct, which an unmarried female always observes.
3 Isyllt remembered that chariness .
4 To preserve however the chariness of their reputation, they insisted upon conducting me with them for a few miles on the outside of a stage-coach.
5 I ended up knowing its habits better than my own: its chariness - it was an old veteran rat-itsaudacity, the way it moved inside the walls.
6 "Is it?" I said, with a tone and manner whose consummate chariness and frostiness I could not but applaud.
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