In the corridor that morning Vona had shown that too much precipitateness alarmed her; he might go too far in five more stanzas.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
She had found him cursing, had kept him at bay, and he had already had evidence of the danger of precipitateness in her case.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
She climbed Mount Hough, but she did not find out what sort of a fellow the lookout man was, for Jack heard her puffing up the pack trail and retired, with the precipitateness of a hunted fox, to his niche between the boulders.
"The Lookout Man"
B. M. Bower