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A new edition of the Banks of Wye is in forwardness, from which some advantage is to be expected.

Letter 373 2009

She thought that I slept, the poor soul; she regretted her weakness - and what perhaps (God help her!) she called her forwardness-and in the dead of the night solaced herself with tears.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

She thought that I slept, the poor soul; she regretted her weakness -- and what perhaps (God help her!) she called her forwardness -- and in the dead of the night solaced herself with tears.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

She thought that I slept, the poor soul; she regretted her weakness -- and what perhaps (God help her!) she called her forwardness -- and in the dead of the night solaced herself with tears.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Though children, when little, should not be much perplexed with rules and ceremonious parts of breeding, yet there is a sort of unmannerliness very apt to grow up with young people, if not early restrained, and that is, a forwardness to interrupt others that are speaking; and to stop them with some contradiction.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 141-150 1909

He is so strong that when I put out two fingers and he has seized them in his fists he can draw himself up on his feet, but we discourage this forwardness, which is not desirable, say the learned.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

He is so strong that when I put out two fingers and he has seized them in his fists he can draw himself up on his feet, but we discourage this forwardness, which is not desirable, say the learned.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

Later, he tells the wealthy, attractive, and female owner of an oldline Jewish department store, whom he earlier insulted for her "forwardness" in challenging him, only to decide to apologize in order to win her business, his philosophy of love: "What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons," says Draper.

William Bradley: Mad Men Returns: The '60s Advertising Drama Is A Time Tunnel To the Present 2009

Nothing is known of the trial, not even the charge, but it is pretty certain that, in common with several other justices at that time, he had showed 'a want of "forwardness"'in collecting ship-money.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

One of the standard objections to the Hebrews is their "forwardness"; socially, it is a disagreeable and annoying fault, but otherwise a gift of no little value.

Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil Max Simon Nordau 1886