forehandedness

It was one of the delightful results of Katy's "forehandedness" that she could command time during those next two days to thoroughly enjoy Cousin

Clover Susan Coolidge 1870

Inconspicuous for his thrift or "forehandedness," it was nevertheless a common circumstance with him to have hundreds of pounds, in pay and prize-money, to his credit at his bankers, the Navy Pay-Office; and though during a voyage he earned his money as hardly as a horse, and was as poor as a church mouse, yet the moment he stepped ashore he made it fly by the handful and squandered it, as the saying went, like an ass.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

"forehandedness," since she made fruit-cake six months before it was to be eaten; and on that memorable night of the storm had actually produced for each child a piece of the same sort of cake, meltingly luscious and moist in one's mouth, with the statement that it had been baked just seven years before.

The Brass Bound Box Evelyn Raymond 1876

Captain Motlow watched my admittedly unusual display of forehandedness with considerable suspicion, but for once I didn't care.

Anywhen Blish, James 1970

"Let me felicitate you on your forehandedness," Harleston called from the next room.

The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott

One suspects that the Secretary may have been more complacently convinced of the forehandedness of the bureau chiefs than was his impatient associate.

Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland

In her wanderings with Burlingham, in her sojourn in the tenements, she had learned a great deal about the care and spending of money -- had developed that instinct for forehandedness which nature has implanted in all normal women along with the maternal instinct -- and as a necessary supplement to it.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

When, after twenty-four hours 'absence, his aide had not returned from Blentz, the chancellor had no regrets for his forehandedness.

The Mad King 1914

Full half an hour before the appointed time he was on deck, a forehandedness which was like to have proved his undoing, for Judge

Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

When, after twenty-four hours 'absence, his aide had not returned from Blentz, the chancellor had no regrets for his forehandedness.

The Mad King Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912