He tried to explain his forwardness in battle. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The forwardness of the harvest this year. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A new edition of the Banks of Wye is in forwardness, from which some advantage is to be expected. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 373] Reference
I found that some of the initial midrange "forwardness" I noticed pre-break-in had disappeared and the low end tightened up. From Wordnik.com. [CE Pro Recently Filed] Reference
One of the standard objections to the Hebrews is their "forwardness"; socially, it is a disagreeable and annoying fault, but otherwise a gift of no little value. From Wordnik.com. [Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil] Reference
There was less shaking hands with your partners, less nodding and becking, and none of that modern forwardness which is called, I believe, camaraderie. ". From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
Alas for the duty of straight-forwardness and dramatic unity!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
"You look a bit pale, sir, if you'll pardon the forwardness.". From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
Though her forwardness bent custom, it broke no religious law. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference
Then, half-ashamed and startled at her forwardness, her gaze dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
I mean that of modest behavior as distinguished from forwardness and boldness. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference
In Barbados we notice the same forwardness in founding monied institutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
We have now the fluent element in better forwardness and command than the fixed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But especially insulting is such forwardness and impetuosity in answering questions. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
She thought, too, one of the men muttered "jail-bird," jeering him for his forwardness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Deploring the lack of candour and straight-forwardness, she pronounced the game at an end. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Gilian was trembling and parched at the lips now, awake to the enormity of his forwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
No forwardness, though, no assumption, yet entire freedom from awkwardness or embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the least intrusive forwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
And the incentive that had prompted the proposal left it shorn of all forwardness or presumption. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Thus our pinnace, on which lyeth so much of our hope of escape, is but in an indifferent forwardness. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference
In the present case, our fair bride secured possession of this prospective privilege with modest forwardness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828] Reference
Haloga women had a reputation for forwardness of both the good and the bad sort; she evidently lived up to it. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
She herself was a curious blending of forwardness and folly, of wisdom and wantonness, of frivolity and unbridled fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
On the morning of that day the Court of Aldermen sat, and a letter from the queen commending them for their forwardness in. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Storer's business is not, from what I have accidentally heard, in so great forwardness as I was in hopes that it had been. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
"With the licensed forwardness of an old friend, I would ask what thou hast to crave of the lovers 'goddess, O thou loveless?". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
He observed the approaches of the enemy, and the forwardness of their batteries; and was convinced that no time was to be lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
Here, as in Cumberland, we find an artificial forwardness of the dinner-table in the midst of the most unpromising circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
With all the Sirdar's care, we could not keep from the dervish leader the extent of our preparations or forwardness for the advance. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
At length he bethought himself of a method the most likely to answer the purpose, without the appearance of forwardness or indelicacy. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
On the other hand, his Aunt Rachel warned him with many head-shakings against the forwardness of the ladies whom he would meet with in. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Rascal was therefore immediately sent for, and entered the room with his usual forwardness; but Minna in the meantime had swooned away. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
ACOSTA: There you go, simple as that, a little North Carolina straight forwardness, coming up after a break here on BALLOT BOWL on CNN. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 3, 2008] Reference
It seemeth that man can never attain prosperity in this world by virtue, gentleness, forgiveness, straight-forwardness and fear of censure!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
This forwardness her parents mistook for mental superiority, and thought they could not bestow too much pains in the cultivation of her extraordinary talents. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
If sincerity is unquestioned, words, manners, actions have great liberty; but if words, manners and actions are lacking in straight-forwardness, it is time to question sincerity. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
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