Prematurely

Examples

• Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The whole indecorous threadbare ruin, from the broken shoes to the prematurely-grey scanty hair, grovelled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She would proceed impetuously and prematurely to obtain for him this dignity, if he would let her, but he will not. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But he applied that maxim to our marriage, my dear; and that was so far prematurely entered into, in consequence, that I never recovered the expense. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ah, my beloved readers and brethren, do not envy poor Becky prematurely--glory like this is said to be fugitive. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her baby had been born prematurely, and all the embroidered robes and caps had to be laid by in darkness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This involved some slipping and consequent burning of belts; also, if the belt were prematurely tightened, the burning-out of the armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But he died prematurely of diphtheria, and Rosamond afterwards married an elderly and wealthy physician, who took kindly to her four children. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Do I not know the Grand Mystery is likely to burst prematurely on me? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The lesson was not lost, then, though it came so prematurely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But the face was in the main one face, and every head was prematurely white. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was that which first unnerved my arms and permitted the infant I might have retained a while longer to be snatched prematurely from their embrace. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In reference, proceeds the Chancellor, still on Jarndyce and Jarndyce, to the young girl-- Begludship's pardon--boy, says Mr. Tangle prematurely. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am sure you would be the last woman to marry again prematurely, if our dear Rector were taken away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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