"Miss Jinny," said he, precipitately, "did I ever strike you as a marrying man?"
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
A pair of fine black eyes darted a look of surprise at seeing a stranger hovering near, and the door was precipitately closed.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
On the evening of the 9th of September, Stewart piled up the arms of his dead and wounded, and set them on fire, destroyed his stores, left seventy of his own wounded, and some of Greene's, at the Eutaw; and retreated precipitately towards Monk's corner.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James