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  • the impetuosity of youth   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness
  • There was an impetuous strong sign from Petra. In words, it would have been an impatient Shut up!   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • In a lake of reeds, he saw the pike hungrily hunting for its dinner; ... young fish jumped in droves out of the water; ... which the pike stirred up, impetuously hunting.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • Impetuous youth.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • ...he demanded impetuously.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (without much thought)
  • But Atlanta was ... as headstrong and impetuous as herself.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive
  • She looked at him with a sudden impetuosity.   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness
  • He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby "taking notice" eagerly and loudly, and requiring almost as much watching to keep him out of unintended mischief.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • Jonathan's impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him.   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
  • "I can't see," he said impetuously, "why you have never written anything about Antonia."   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (without much thought)
  • Billy's impetuous question   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (made quickly without much thought)
  • What an impetuous boy he is!   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • Her impetuous act might prove the death-signal of the man she would have died to save.   (source)
  • He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
  • She too, had passionate desires, but they were persistent rather than impetuous.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say.   (source)
  • Tacking and jibbing, we wrestled with opposing winds that drove us from side to side with impetuous fury.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (forceful and unpredictable)
  • So he was going, in the presence of this difficulty, to give way to all the impetuosity of his character,   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
  • [Rises impetuously.]   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • Tom turned to the woman, and said with impetuous zeal-- "Exert thy power--I would see a storm!"   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive
  • When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (made without much thought)
  • she burst forth in her most impetuous manner.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting without adequate thought)
  • "Say a good fellow, if you want a phrase," returned Herbert, smiling, and clapping his hand on the back of mine—"a good fellow, with impetuosity and hesitation, boldness and diffidence, action and dreaming, curiously mixed in him."   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
  • the manner in which the words escaped from his mouth,-- incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (without much thought)
  • The impetuous fury of the entering gust nearly lifted us from our feet.   (source)
    impetuous = rapid and forceful
  • Jack, with his usual impetuosity, wished to send a shot in amongst the robber band, but I prevented him, for I knew that the bird or two he might kill would be of no use to us, while his shot would not drive away the rest, even had we wished it.   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (tendency to act suddenly without much thought)
  • "There is still time!" he cried. "Reflect! perhaps you may repent!"
    "Never!" she cried impetuously.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • In spite of his usual command over himself, Dantes could not restrain his impetuosity.   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • "I've come to buy you, and take you home," said George, with impetuous vehemence.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • "..." cried he, impetuously.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start, and before he could recover himself to speak, she...   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive
  • Pope Julius the Second went to work impetuously in all his affairs, and found the times and circumstances conform so well ... that he always met with success.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • With its wrenched, impetuous forms.†   (source)
  • For if a man has had the good fortune to be plucked from the crowd by an impetuous beauty, shouldn't he expect to be sent on his way without ceremony?†   (source)
  • The impetuous, haughty girl—do you know she refused to wear the dress I sent her?†   (source)
  • She looked at Ser Rodrik with his great white whiskers, at Maester Luwin in his grey robes, at young Greyjoy, lean and dark and impetuous.†   (source)
  • The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Father!" she cried impetuously.†   (source)
  • As I think about my impetuous brother, I can imagine him being that young man who made a run for the forest, doing everything he possibly could to try to survive.†   (source)
  • All agreed that the most important thing was to manage the impetuousness of the youngsters, for armed resistance would likely lead to a slaughter, and nonviolence was surely their most potent response, shaming their attackers into civility.†   (source)
  • Sa' broke into laughter at her impetuous youth.†   (source)
  • Well, the truth is you are an impetuous boy driven by madness and you are not now and you will never be a master.†   (source)
  • His defects were perceived to be a certain "nervous temperament" and susceptibility to poor health, impetuousness, and acute sensitivity to criticism.†   (source)
  • He cautioned me, "Though sensible in her own way, my sister is inclined to be somewhat impetuous and is, I'm afraid, a little too involved with art and other nonsense."†   (source)
  • And with the sort of serendipity that so often rewards impetuousness, the entire family fell fiercely in love with the country that would be renamed Tanzania after independence in 1961.†   (source)
  • Intensity has its costs, of course—in pain, in hastily and poorly reckoned plans, in impetuousness—but it has its advantages as well.†   (source)
  • You are not in a place to make impetuous demands.†   (source)
  • In fact, when we crossed one of the wolf trails she became so enthusiastic it was all I could do to restrain her impetuosity by means of a heavy chain leash.†   (source)
  • Impetuously then—she knew it was a risk, a gamble—she bent down and fumblingly plucked the worn and faded pamphlet from the little crevice in her boot.†   (source)
  • Just curb your impetuosity in the future, when it involves life-taking in my presence.†   (source)
  • Nikolai Nikolaievich burst into the room as impetuously as the wind coming through the open window.†   (source)
  • It's because I was always the impetuous one, highstrung and so easily carried away.... And if Phinny was mine—†   (source)
  • "Well, I be mighty delighted," she said after a moment, seeming to have briefly regretted the impetuosity that had led her to call him a "pretty" man.†   (source)
  • He was restless, fearless, but of impetuous and sometimes ungovernable temper.   (source)
  • He was then the most impetuous boy in the world, and he is now the most impetuous man.   (source)
  • "I'll write as long as I live," cried the boy impetuously.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (without much thought)
  • Avdotya Romanovna began impetuously, but immediately checked herself.   (source)
  • Mr. Micawber, whose impetuosity I had restrained thus far with the greatest difficulty,   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
  • she whispered with desperate impetuosity.   (source)
  • the impetuous young man ... sprang upon his enemy with naked hands.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • the impetuous gusts of the north wind do not make the traveler lay aside his cloak;   (source)
    impetuous = sudden and unpredictable
  • all undertaken with his characteristic impetuosity.   (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
  • "No--I won't, I won't!" she said impetuously, quite forgetful of...   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (suddenly, without much thought)
  • "I can't feel as I've got any father but one," said Eppie, impetuously, while the tears gathered.   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (without much thought)
  • But d'Artagnan was at the same time impetuous and curious.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • Perhaps she had felt the impetuous desire that was in him, and then the yielding mood had come upon her.   (source)
  • He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure,   (source)
    impetuosity = without much thought
  • He is an impetuous youth.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive
  • She looked from the window and saw Henchard and Farfrae in the hay-yard talking, with that impetuous cordiality on the Mayor's part, and genial modesty on the younger man's,   (source)
    impetuous = forceful
  • "Leave me to myself, if you please," she said, with impetuous haughtiness, "and for the future avoid me."   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • It was the same impetuous Katya who had thrown herself on the mercy of a young profligate to save her father;   (source)
  • For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable--they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness--and...   (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • the impetuous confidence of his manner   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • because you must have the unfortunate temperament of the poor impetuous girl herself, before you can fully understand it.   (source)
  • There was a thought yet nearer, a more prevailing, more impetuous concern.   (source)
  • they had gone through the subject again and again; and with the same steady conviction and affectionate counsel on Elinor's side, the same impetuous feelings and varying opinions on Marianne's, as before.   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (without much thought)
  • Silent under his polished helmet, Hektor, dazzling and impetuous, passed on to drive the Argives back with general slaughter,   (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
  • For if serenity should be a hallmark of maturity, then impetuousness should be a hallmark of youth.†   (source)
  • Today he'd been less impetuous, more pensive.†   (source)
  • She was too contrary, impetuous, and annoying to be an effective mole.†   (source)
  • Ellis was an impetuous young man.†   (source)
  • At first they'd play tennis, on the clay court behind Crake's place, but Crake combined method with lateral thinking and hated to lose, and Jimmy was impetuous and lacked finesse, so that wasn't too productive and they dropped it.†   (source)
  • For Leona Cassiani was still the woman she had been that afternoon on the trolley, with the same clothes, worthy of an impetuous runaway slave, her mad turbans, her earrings and bracelets made of bone, her necklaces, her rings with fake stones on every finger: a lioness in the streets.†   (source)
  • Encouraged by the impetuous thought that this was an arranged opportunity, Florentino Ariza crossed the street and stopped in front of Fermina Daza, so close to her that he could detect the catches in her breathing and the floral scent that he would identify with her for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • With the promptitude of classical illusions, a depth of research ....and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him.†   (source)
  • He sat for a moment with a hangdog look, then spurted to his feet suddenly and stamped away to have another impetuous crack at persuading Doc Daneeka to ground him, knocking over Yossarian's washstand with his hip when he lurched around and tripping over the fuel line of the stove Orr was still constructing.†   (source)
  • Knox wrote privately that while the loss of his six men had been a great misfortune, he consoled himself with the hope that the day's action had taught the rest to be less "impetuous" the next time.†   (source)
  • He could be high-spirited and affectionate, vain, cranky, impetuous, self-absorbed, and fiercely stubborn; passionate, quick to anger, and all-forgiving; generous and entertaining.†   (source)
  • Henry Clinton, in accounting for what happened, blamed the "impetuosity" of the light infantry for pursuing the rebels in the first place.†   (source)
  • So completely was he the self he resolved to be that everything about him seemed inevitable, exact, perfecthis well-proportioned, handsomely set head, his impetuous step, his long legs, his knee boots which may well have been muddy but looked polished, and his gray serge tunic which may have been creased but looked as if it were made of the best linen and had just been pressed.†   (source)
  • Language, the home and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in terms of sonority but in terms of the impetuousness and power of its inward flow.†   (source)
  • They were all unusually hungry, having waited nearly an hour, and for a minute no one spoke, only a minute, for Jo exclaimed impetuously, "I'm so glad you came before we began!"†   (source)
  • With that she rushed across the street so impetuously that she narrowly escaped annihilation from a passing truck, and precipitated herself into the arms of a stately old gentleman, who said, "I beg pardon, ma'am," and looked mortally offended.†   (source)
  • My friend is impetuous, but I don't blame him, he's quite right to make things clear.†   (source)
  • But surely there's such a thing as being too impetuous?†   (source)
  • Leo rebuffed him impetuously.†   (source)
  • They stopped at Memphis for a day or two: Steve was at work there in a paint store; he slipped quickly in and out of saloons, as he took Eugene about the city, leaving the boy outside for a moment while he went "in here to see a fellow"—a "fellow" who always sent him forth, Eugene thought, with an added impetuosity to his swagger.†   (source)
  • When he joined Father Vaillant at coffee, that impetuous man who could never keep a secret asked him anxiously whether he had heard anything.†   (source)
  • I find marks against all those sentences which seem to express a sardonic yet passionate nature; a moth-like impetuosity dashing itself against hard glass.†   (source)
  • I only arrived in London yesterday, and heard quite by chance at luncheon that you were having an exhibition, so of course I dashed impetuously to the shrine to pay homage.†   (source)
  • It read Dear Howie why were you so impetuous stop I am miserable thinking what you have done stop please forgive me and come right back to Shale City stop I hate Glen Hogan stop love Onie.†   (source)
  • And Andrew shouted that the sea was coming in, so she leapt splashing through the shallow waves on to the shore and ran up the beach and was carried by her own impetuosity and her desire for rapid movement right behind a rock and there—oh, heavens!†   (source)
  • I knew nothing of finance, but I heard it said that his dealings were badly looked on by orthodox Conservatives; even his good qualities of geniality and impetuosity counted against him, for his parties at Brideshead got talked about.†   (source)
  • It was Gerald's headstrong and impetuous nature in her that gave them concern, and they sometimes feared they would not be able to conceal her damaging qualities until she had made a good match.†   (source)
  • Father Latour checked his impetuous Vicar, and sat down on the sofa beside Madame Olivares, feeling very sorry for her and speaking very gently.†   (source)
  • They did not know that it was the season when all the roving Navajo bands gather at the Canyon de Chelly for their religious ceremonies, and they rode on impetuously until they came out upon the rim of that mysterious and terrifying canyon itself, then swarming with Indians.†   (source)
  • With a suddenness that startled her, he slid off the sofa onto his knees and with one hand placed delicately over his heart, he recited rapidly: "Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Quick footsteps, and the girls burst in impetuously, exclaiming: "Mescal's not there!†   (source)
  • And the young man impetuously seized the Persian's hands.†   (source)
  • [She kisses him impetuously, and they quickly part] I must go†   (source)
  • Flo and her mother were amused at Carley's impetuosity.†   (source)
  • "Get up his strength!" said Tess impetuously, the tears welling to her eyes.†   (source)
  • He clenched his fists in vexation and looked up at her impetuously.†   (source)
  • "You are!" she contradicted impetuously.†   (source)
  • O, why didn't you, why didn't you!" she said, impetuously clasping her hands.†   (source)
  • The impetuous Galileans would have pursued them to the steps, but Ben-Hur wisely restrained them.†   (source)
  • "I see how it is—I see how it is," impetuously interrupted Judith.†   (source)
  • He pranced off to engage the lodgings with all the impetuosity of love.†   (source)
  • "Human nature!" cried the old boy, impetuously; "what human nature?†   (source)
  • He was then the most impetuous boy in the world, and he is now the most impetuous man.†   (source)
  • You have no conception what an amount of harm you do yourself by your impetuosity.†   (source)
  • He looked and spoke with eagerness: his old impetuosity was rising.†   (source)
  • "Jasper Western is not one of these," said Mabel impetuously.†   (source)
  • I see!' impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha upon his silvery ruffles.†   (source)
  • Kolya cried impetuously, his face glowing and radiant with delight.†   (source)
  • She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity.†   (source)
  • "I can," cried the youth, with an impetuosity that startled his companion.†   (source)
  • "No one suspects you, Deerslayer," the girl impetuously cried.†   (source)
  • Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance.†   (source)
  • "The pledge can't be fulfilled," he said, with impetuous insistence.†   (source)
  • Such was the gentleman who addressed me in that impetuous manner.†   (source)
  • "Confound you, hold your tongue!" said Godfrey, impetuously.†   (source)
  • Arthur burst out impetuously; "I feel it enough without your worrying me."†   (source)
  • 'Hear me speak,' said Newman, planting himself before his impetuous young friend.†   (source)
  • "Where is he?" said George, impetuously.†   (source)
  • "Wish to consult me on the matter?" reached his ears in the rich, impetuous accents of Eustacia Vye.†   (source)
  • Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:— "What are you jabbering about?†   (source)
  • At last he turned towards her and said impetuously— "Why should I not tell you?†   (source)
  • "And me, Pathfinder!" impetuously interrupted Mabel; "do you regret having known me?†   (source)
  • 'Is she quite recovered?' said Nicholas, impetuously.†   (source)
  • "Man my boat!" cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars near him—"Stand by to lower!"†   (source)
  • "I will never give him up—never!" she said impetuously.†   (source)
  • "Deerslayer!" returned the other, with much of her native impetuosity—"That cannot be!†   (source)
  • She interrupted him impetuously:— "But I am cured!†   (source)
  • "I deny that," interrupted Philip, impetuously.†   (source)
  • He escaped impetuously, like the wolf who finds his cage open.†   (source)
  • "We can't part, Maggie," said Stephen, more impetuously.†   (source)
  • "There is nothing that I like in him," said Dorothea, rather impetuously.†   (source)
  • The mother exclaimed impetuously:— "You always have something better than any one else, so you do!†   (source)
  • "Yes, it is of use," said Stephen, impetuously.†   (source)
  • "That is of no consequence," said Dorothea, breaking in impetuously.†   (source)
  • "No more am I," said Philip, impetuously; "I am not happy."†   (source)
  • "That is a dreadful imprisonment," said Will, impetuously.†   (source)
  • Then he burst out impetuously,— "It is unnatural, it is horrible.†   (source)
  • "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity.†   (source)
  • "Has it made you hate me, Maggie?" said Philip, impetuously.†   (source)
  • "I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously.†   (source)
  • "I have worked, I do work," I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all.†   (source)
  • He was so impetuous—so blazing now with a flame of her own creating, as she felt, yet which she was incapable of feeling as much as he, as she knew—such a flame as she had never seen in him or any one else before.†   (source)
  • Then in the tenebrous immensity a livid arch appears; a swell or two like undulations of the very darkness run past, and suddenly, wind and rain strike together with a peculiar impetuosity as if they had burst through something solid.†   (source)
  • Cellini of an armed watchman, a young footman, his body slightly bent forward, rearing above his crimson gorget an even more crimson face, from which seemed to burst forth torrents of fire, timidity and zeal, who, as he pierced the Aubusson tapestries that screened the door of the room in which the music was being given with his impetuous, vigilant, desperate gaze, appeared, with a soldierly impassibility or a supernatural faith—an allegory of alarums, incarnation of alertness, commemoration of a riot—to be looking out, angel or sentinel, from the tower of dungeon or cathedral, for the approach of the enemy or for the hour of Judgment.†   (source)
  • The impetuous creature—a pirate—started forward, sprang away; she had to hold the rail to steady herself, for a pirate it was, reckless, unscrupulous, bearing down ruthlessly, circumventing dangerously, boldly snatching a passenger, or ignoring a passenger, squeezing eel-like and arrogant in between, and then rushing insolently all sails spread up Whitehall.†   (source)
  • CUSINS [returning impetuously from the shelter with a flag and a trombone, and coming between Mrs Baines and Undershaft] You shall carry the flag down the first street, Mrs Baines [he gives her the flag].†   (source)
  • A more critical, fastidious, handsome face, paler and colder, without Tanner's impetuous credulity and enthusiasm, and without a touch of his modern plutocratic vulgarity, but still a resemblance, even an identity.†   (source)
  • It was not all that far, really, when you went about it a little less impetuously than he had done that day.†   (source)
  • No one had ever told the form-master before that he talked nonsense, and he was meditating an acid reply, in which perhaps he might insert a veiled reference to hosiery, when Mr. Perkins in his impetuous way attacked him outrageously.†   (source)
  • In your anxiety for Helen's happiness you would offend the whole of these Wilcoxes by asking one of your impetuous questions—not that one minds offending them.†   (source)
  • Now suddenly Bobbie slipped through the railings and rushed down the bank towards Peter, so impetuously that Phyllis, following more temperately, felt certain that her sister's descent would end in the waters of the canal.†   (source)
  • He put a hard curb on his impetuosity, and forced himself to wait and think carefully of every action before he undertook it.†   (source)
  • His intentions had been of the most delicate, prudent sort—nothing even vaguely impetuous or awkward.†   (source)
  • And what life may be worth when" ...he got on his feet with a ponderous impetuosity, as a startled ox might scramble up from the grass ..."when the honour is gone—ah ca!†   (source)
  • LADY BRITOMART [coming impetuously between Undershaft and the deck chair] Andrew: you shouldn't have let me see this place.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous volubility of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun.†   (source)
  • And when the order came to run down the canyon to prevent a possible massacre of Starwell and men, who had impetuously advanced too far, some were left behind.†   (source)
  • A letter of his ...rash, impetuous, as were all his actions, and written to Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, has fallen into the hands of a fanatic.†   (source)
  • Put that along with her resentment of Higgins's domineering superiority, and her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting round her and evading her wrath when he had gone too far with his impetuous bullying, and you will see that Eliza's instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her Pygmalion.†   (source)
  • Then impetuously he told her that Mildred had left him and that his unhappiness had been so great that he almost killed himself.†   (source)
  • He was, in his way, an impetuous man, and a quiet life of repentance in the bosom of his family soon became insupportable to him.†   (source)
  • Extremely annoyed at this, Jim came out impetuously, and Cornelius with a faint shriek fled along the verandah as far as the steps, where he hung on to the broken banister.†   (source)
  • An impetuous woman, Lizabetha Prokofievna sometimes weighed her anchors and put out to sea quite regardless of the possible storms she might encounter.†   (source)
  • At home he gave the impression of a very energetic, prudent, and—despite his elegance—cold, practical man of business; but when traveling in regions whose customs were strange to him, in the south of Germany, for instance, he was all too quick to be polite and self-effacing and assumed a certain impetuous amiability, which was in no way the result of insecurity about his own culture, but on the contrary reflected both an awareness of its solid integrity and a desire to improve on his own aristocratic tendencies—even amid customs he found simply incredible, he would show no surprise whatever.†   (source)
  • The parrot fortunately offered no further interruption to the entertainment, the whole venom of his nature apparently having been cherished up and hurled against the twins in that one impetuous outburst.†   (source)
  • They came from her lips hurriedly and impetuously, and had been prepared and thought out long ago, even before she had ever dreamed of the present meeting.†   (source)
  • The perspiration dripped on him off my head, my drill coat clung to my wet back: the afternoon breeze swept impetuously over the row of bedsteads, the stiff folds of curtains stirred perpendicularly, rattling on brass rods, the covers of empty beds blew about noiselessly near the bare floor all along the line, and I shivered to the very marrow.†   (source)
  • But remembering Edna's whimsical turn of mind of late, and foreseeing that she had immediately acted upon her impetuous determination, he grasped the situation with his usual promptness and handled it with his well-known business tact and cleverness.†   (source)
  • "Surely," he began again, in more impetuous tones, and then looked round at the labourer who turned the slicer.†   (source)
  • I don't want you to sing it," and she laid her glass so impetuously and blindly upon the table as to shatter it against a carafe.†   (source)
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