Child and lad, his was a precocious intelligence; and it had been fed upon meat for strong men.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
His father's last counsels, given at a supreme moment, may have weighed with him, for his well-known answer, "I will be torn to pieces ere they make me a king while my brothers live," prove him to have been, at that time, an unusually precocious child.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
How precocious these young American girls were, to be sure!
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth