All 11 Uses of
impetuous
in
Les Miserables
- He escaped impetuously, like the wolf who finds his cage open.†
Chpt 1.2
- the manner in which the words escaped from his mouth,-- incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,
Chpt 1.7 *impetuous = impulsive (without much thought)
- She interrupted him impetuously:— "But I am cured!†
Chpt 1.8
- …absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in a…†
Chpt 2.1
- The mother exclaimed impetuously:— "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad things.†
Chpt 3.8
- Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:— "What are you jabbering about?†
Chpt 4.6
- "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?"†
Chpt 4.8
- M. Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the door opened, and Marius was on the point of going out, he advanced four paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:— "Tell me all about it!"†
Chpt 4.8
- That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air.†
Chpt 4.10
- The insurgents fired impetuously.†
Chpt 5.1
- He had acted impetuously, according to his wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,—to satisfy Marius.†
Chpt 5.5
Definition:
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(impetuous as in: an impetuous decision) impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought) -- often with an unfortunate consequence