precipitance

Example Sentences

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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

Bohun I suspect suffered, too, from that sudden sharp precipitance into a world that knew not Discipline and recked nothing of the Granta.

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

The spiritual mission, therefore, the purpose for which only the religious teacher was sent, has now perished altogether—overlaid and confounded by the merely scientific wranglings to which his own inconsiderate precipitance has opened the door.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

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.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell

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)