precocious
Definition: Unusually advanced, especially in mental development
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The Works of Jules Verne - By Jules Verne, Charles Francis Horne
...Besides, there are precocious winters as well as precocious summers ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...Mr. Stryver laughed till he shook his precocious paunch . "...
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...She was a fearless and familiar little thing, who asked disconcerting questions, made precocious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...The generation who follow us are very precocious ! "...
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...An act of so much precipitancy and presumption would seal the downfall of the precocious intellect forever ....
Kim - By Rudyard Kipling
...Therefore, you would scarcely be interested in Kim 's experiences as a St. Xavier 's boy among two or three hundred precocious youths, most of whom had never seen the sea ....
Silas Marner - By George Eliot, Edward Leeds Gulick
...Of Mary Ann herself we are told that though she very early acquired the notion that she was to be a personage in the world, she was not a precocious child; her slowness in learning to read was not, however, due to any slowness of apprehension, but rather to her intense fondness for playing with her brother Isaac ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton, Philip M. Parker
...She was a fearless and familiar little thing, who asked disconcerting questions, made precocious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar ....
Hard Times - By Charles Dickens
...Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy . "...
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James, Leon Edel
...Pansy was really a blank page, a pure white surface; she was not clever enough for precocious coquetries ....
Of Human Bondage - By William Somerset Maugham
...His brain was precocious His uncle and aunt, seeing that he occupied himself and neither...
Main Street - By Sinclair Lewis
...Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an " elocutionist " being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...And again, when of moonlight nights, on waking, I beheld her figure, white and conspicuous in its night-dress, kneeling upright in bed, and praying like some Catholic or Methodist enthusiast--some precocious fanatic or untimely saint--I scarcely know what thoughts I had; but they ran risk of being hardly more rational and healthy than that child 's mind must have been ....
One of Ours - By Willa Cather
...Ralph was docile, and had a precocious sagacity for keeping out of trouble ....
The Way We Live Now - By Anthony Trollope
...A precocious youth remarked that he was " all one as a dead un ' . "...
The Damnation of Theron Ware - By Harold Frederic
...She is infinitely more precocious as a girl ....
The Last Days of Pompeii - By Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
...`` It is not very old, " said Glaucus, `` but it has been made precocious like ourselves, by being put to the fire :--the wine to the flames of Vulcan--we to those of his wife--to whose honor I pour this cup . " "...
The Octopus - By Frank Norris
...Marriage had only accentuated the beautiful maturity of Hilma 's figure--now no longer precocious--defining the single, deep swell from her throat to her waist, the strong, fine amplitude of her hips, the sweet, feminine undulation of her neck and shoulders ....