Disturbing the bedding had been a needless precaution, but one that would give him the basis of an explanation if the unexpected had happened.
He did it, though he knew it was a needless precaution.
A man who is fleeing his native land for ever has no time for petty revenges and needless precautions.
It may be a needless precaution, but I don't care to wake up and find myself in the condition of our friend yonder.
This turned out to be a needless precaution.
It was a needless precaution.
A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.
It proved a needless precaution, for no one paid him the slightest attention.
And it was probably a needless precaution, anyway.
SerpentMage * 309 " It was a needless precaution.