impetuously

Example Sentences

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Impetuously attacked on the flank, the Cherokees suffered severely at the hands of the Royal Scots before being able to get out of their reach.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Impetuously he rushed to the second cache; it, too, was void of all meat; the third cache held nothing but the footprints of his gray half-brothers, the Wolf Thieves.

From The Outcasts by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard

Impetuously the White Linen Nurse scrambled to her own hands and knees and jostled the Little Girl aside.

From The White Linen Nurse by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Impetuously she scales the wire trellis of the cage where she was born; hurriedly she clambers to the top of the tall mast which I have prepared for her. 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Impetuously he started to speak, but once again the words died away on his lips as he saw the half-tender, half-humorous look in her eyes.

From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)