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A beige wool loathing of prudence - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

To race propriety and prudence out of breath - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

How pity beat the wall of prudence down - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

With prudence close allied - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Which an age of prudence can never retract - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

'Tis said that prudence changes friends - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

This precaution prudence begs - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Self-spun cocoon of prudence wound - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Prudence preached to us in vain - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

The pearl of matchless Prudence drew - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

By slow prudence - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"


Be prudent in your zeal - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

The card of prudent lore - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Never a prudent thing - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"

Drew your time in prudent proportions - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"


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