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There would be no excuse; she could never again plead that she had been the victim of Transley's precipitateness.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Stead, Robert J. C.

Stewart had appeared so abruptly, he towered so dominantly, that a stranger would have expected a general precipitateness of personality and speech to go with his looks.

From All-Wool Morrison by Day, Holman

She had found him cursing, had kept him at bay, and he had already had evidence of the danger of precipitateness in her case.

From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman

It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself.

From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold

It was to this that Zen had referred in speaking of Transley's precipitateness.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Stead, Robert J. C.