| 单词 | precipitance |
| 例句 | "Curse on my precipitance!" he cried, throwing his arms round me. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The boy had really been suffering for his precipitance. Once a Greech His fiery and enthusiastic soul leapt to its call; but with none of the headlong precipitance that would have been its ruin. Kościuszko A Biography He couldn't get over it, he said, their dropping in on him like this, with a divine precipitance, out of their blue. The Creators A Comedy They were such timid folk, these sheep; their fears passed easily into destructive precipitances. The Eagle's Heart That does not mean, and has nothing to do with, 'proud precipitance of soul,' nor haste in forming pregnant resolves. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Caravan bounded to his feet with such precipitance that his chair rolled over against the chair. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 She knew that there was no precipitance—no inconsequence—with Him. The Other Girls It would end there, in hand-shakings and in frigid ceremony, this friendship to which Tanqueray had lent himself with a precipitance that resembled passion and a fervour that suggested fire. The Creators A Comedy Away they went with reckless precipitance, the cattle obeying the master hand of the celebrated raider with an implicitness which seemed to indicate a strange sympathy between man and beast. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Perhaps miscarriage of that initiatory experiment was due to precipitance, incubation of my perverse instinct being not yet complete. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion There seem no more big things of that kind available—so that I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen. An Englishman Looks at the World For, as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance. The Creators A Comedy If his most intimate advisers had had the perspicuity to have foreseen the final outcome of such precipitance might they not have advised the Emperor to have proceeded more deliberately? Court Life in China The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression: the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes The lights we could make out now across the zenith; but owing to the precipitance of the cliffs, and the rise of the arroyo bed, it was impossible to see more. The Mystery 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. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 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. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Thine eyes are not the youngest in the camp, Nor look they out the sharpest from thy head; But thou art ever hasty in thy speech, And ill becomes thee this precipitance. The Iliad 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. Maurice Guest O my son, 'ware precipitance, for it gendereth repentance and the slaying of them shall not escape thee. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] 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. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 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. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 "Stormy pity, and the cherish'd lure Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul." Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance. Manalive |
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