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When I told him what we were scheming, his eyes bulged, his skin flaked, and he said what he always said whenever big-mountain travel came up: Don�t go guideless when faced with a probable B.A.F.U.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wondered if my case was the case of many men, whether in former ages, too, men had been so guideless, so uncharted, so haphazard in their journey into life.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He had slipped in attempting the most foolhardy course on earth, and there was a lot of talk about the dangers of guideless climbing.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

His guideless youth, if thy experienced age Mislead fallacious into idle rage, Vengeance deserved thy malice shall repress.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

And woe, thus unfortified, guideless, and unenduring,—woe to both!

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron