No country is so precociously old for its years.
"Mushrooms on the Moor"
Frank Boreham
The tadpole lives not out its day as a tadpole, but precociously turns into a frog.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
At an early age Clotilde von Rudiger was dissatisfied with her conquests, though they were already numerous in her seventeenth year, for she began precociously, having at her dawn a lively fancy, a womanly person, and singular attractions of colour, eyes, and style.
"The Tragic Comedians, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009