In the past month, government has acted with precipitance of judgment, akin to patching holes as the levy fails. From Wordnik.com. [A New Deal For America] Reference
I started — I was out of breath — I gasped, at this frightful precipitance — I was going to open with warmth against it. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Durward was mortified and surprised at the consequence of his precipitance, but comforted himself with the hope that the Lady of the. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
“See, then, O King,” continued the Wazir “what cometh of precipitance; verily, it is unpraiseworthy and bequeatheth repentance; and in this I give thee true advice and loyal counsel.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Precipitate, I know, she has always been reckoned; but her precipitance is of kin to her noblest virtues; it springs but from the unsuspicious frankness of an unguarded, because innocent nature. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
With a precipitance that was the extreme opposite of his previous sloth, he lowered both window-blinds, and, lighting two candles, set them on the piano, where they dispersed the immediate darkness, but no more. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Amazed beyond all measure, she stared at him a moment in silence, and then, confirmed by his looks that he was serious, would have left the cabin with precipitance: but, preventing her from passing; 'Charming Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
She knew that there was no precipitance -- no inconsequence -- with Him. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Girls] Reference
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators A Comedy] Reference
At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter X] Reference
He couldn't get over it, he said, their dropping in on him like this, with a divine precipitance, out of their blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators A Comedy] Reference
That does not mean, and has nothing to do with, 'proud precipitance of soul,' nor haste in forming pregnant resolves. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to shew off before the ladies. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice]
His fiery and enthusiastic soul leapt to its call; but with none of the headlong precipitance that would have been its ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Kościuszko A Biography] Reference
There seem no more big things of that kind available -- so that I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance. From Wordnik.com. [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference
The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression: the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance. From Wordnik.com. [Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia] Reference
The haste and the joy went hand in hand, and I was soon equipped, though shocked at my own precipitance in sending before I was already visible. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference
But pity begins to give way to another feeling when we witness the precipitance, the despotism, the uncontrolled anger of his injustice to Cordelia and. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
And she wept when she reflected that her own precipitance had facilitated the accomplishment of the plot which had perhaps forever ruined her happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
This was a precipitance for which I was every way unprepared, as I had never made but one copy of the play, and had intended divers corrections and alterations. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
A butchery, that was in a numerical sense so vast, cannot be supposed to have escaped its author in a hurry, or to be open to any of the usual palliations from precipitance or inattention. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
But Bonaparte lived to lay in ruins even his personal interest in this great edifice of empire; and that entirely by his own desperate presumption, precipitance, and absolute defect of self-command. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
'by my own unreflecting precipitance; I have lost him, perhaps, for ever!'. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference
At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
And ill becomes thee this precipitance. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
My blushes betrayed my precipitance. — "I am sorry he has seen the letter," resumed she, "it affected him. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife; or, Caroline Herbert] Reference
At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies. ". From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Edward, “for the abruptness of George’s manner of communicating intelligence, as we all know the precipitance of his ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Vicissitudes in Genteel Life] Reference
And ill becomes thee this precipitance. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
291: Hasted with glad precipitance, uprowld. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
Hasted with glad precipitance, uprowled. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost: The Seventh Book] Reference
A little over-precipitance may ruin all. ". From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories] Reference
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