Verb (used with object) : to precipitate an international crisis. ,He precipitated himself into the struggle. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a precipitate fall down the stairs. ,a precipitate retreat. ,a precipitate stop; a precipitate decision. ,a precipitate marriage. From Dictionary.com.
Great slaughter ensued, and they retreated precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
I left her precipitately, and rushed out to find Mercanson. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Whenever I found a bench I sat down only to rise precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She took it precipitately, -- a sign that she was slightly disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
The planters and their families having fled precipitately, the United. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
French so greatly, that they precipitately abandoned the Royal battery. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
"I think that at last I am going to find a cab," he said, precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So bold an undertaking so precipitately announced, will give the reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
I rushed precipitately, as I thought, into the thickest recesses of the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
And Claire, having seen her driven from the door, fled precipitately to her room. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
On three sides the plateau dropped precipitately into a lower rock-strewn, valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
As if she were verily afraid Clara might take it back, she turned precipitately to. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Gothic room with the lady in the rose-colored gown who had just entered it so precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Dashing forward precipitately, Ewan's horse, with the two men on his back, entered the water. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
When he told that excellent woman that her husband had disappeared, she precipitately swooned away. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
He precipitately took ship for Marseilles, and for twenty-seven years was forced to remain in that city. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
"I imagine Garth -- asked for what he wanted!" she observed, and vanished precipitately through the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
We do not mean, that persons commonly eat too fast, but that the courses succeed one another too precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
But when time wore on a little I began to question myself uneasily about the step I had so precipitately taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
The enemy was routed and fled precipitately, abandoning a large amount of arms, ammunition, knapsacks, and baggage. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Our advance guard gave them a few shots and they fled precipitately to the mountains, burning the bridge behind them. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
Ah, I swear that I would have scolded her well had I not been forced to quit precipitately that, little town of Loudun. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With no one to check them, had excesses been committed, how blameable it would have been to have acted so precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
The men in general were betaking themselves precipitately to flight; nor was there any possibility of their being rallied. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference
December, took up our line of march and at evening arrived at the encampment we had precipitately left on the plains of Abraham. From Wordnik.com. [An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775] Reference
The retreat was thus precipitately commenced, and presented a very different aspect to the withdrawal of the Prince's troops from. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
As these words were being uttered, Mr. Ross was seen precipitately making his way out of the hall under the return fire of his foe. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
"You'd better come out here, or I'll use force," cried Lucile's voice from somewhere in the rear, and the orator fled precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
There was lively skirmishing for a few days, and hot work expected; but, for reasons unknown to us, the enemy retired precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
The governor, who had been almost defying Mr. Davis before this, now fled precipitately, as did the legislature of the State and all the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Thinking himself discovered, Turner begged these men to conceal his whereabouts, but they, on finding out who it was, precipitately fled. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
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