precipitance

Example Sentences

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There seem no more big things of that kind available—so that I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

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 Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel

He couldn't get over it, he said, their dropping in on him like this, with a divine precipitance, out of their blue.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

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 The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny