As to catastrophies, a great "slide" or a premature dynamite explosion are serious disaster to Americans on the job just as they would be to Europeans.
The Zone point of view seems to be that no shoveling is so important, even that of digging a ditch half the ships of the world are waiting to cross, that a man should bring upon himself a premature funeral.
I feel confident that you will get ultimate credit for the re-establishment of a rational habit of eating which, under normal conditions of food supply, is a protector against premature swallowing of food.
He repented his own rashness in the recent debate, which was, indeed, a premature boldness that had sprung out of momentary excitement--for the craftiest orator must be indiscreet sometimes.
I fear if you press her now, such now may be her premature decision.
Premature baldness is far more common than it used to be.
Only occasionally do we meet with an example of vigorous health continued to old age; hourly do we meet with examples of acute disorder, chronic ailment, general debility, premature decrepitude.
The abnormally rapid advance of any organ in respect of structure, involves premature arrest of its growth; and this happens with the organ of the mind as certainly as with any other organ.
Amazed at this indication of premature decay, he not only filled his own home but roused the whole neighbourhood with his laments.
Inadvisable and premature this desire may often be, and those whom shame forbids to obey their superiors ofttimes command but ill, and might better have submitted to be led.
Can you apprehend that you are premature in undertaking a task for which, as you must know, the longest life would scarcely suffice?
I struggled in my younger days with a keen but constant and pure attachment, and would have struggled with it longer had not the sinking flame been extinguished by death--premature and bitter, but salutary.
It seems therefore premature to enter into the details of these speculations.
The dream of restoring the age of Constantine passed with the premature death of Otto; and after the death of Silvester II.
Having unwisely formed her own premature conception of her part, and lacking totally the technical ability to express it, she ran constantly afoul of Wilbrow's notions.
His smile was again confident, bright with premature pride of conquest.
Sooner or later this prematuregrowth will make it sickly, and that would be a pity.
It is not I who deceive her, but Veronica, when she assumes as a matter of course assurances I never gave; and yet I cannot, by a premature contradiction, destroy my whole happiness.
Thus he alluded to his new commander's premature baldness.
From that point Rahmut had decided to make the advance on foot, so that the chances of premature discovery by the enemy should be diminished.
Don't understand me as not taking into account all the strategical considerations against premature governmental utterances on this great subject.
The premature death of his son, the young poet Micah Joseph, the centre of many and legitimate hopes, extorted cries of distress and despair from him.
We are grieved to be obliged to state that the society thus hopefully commenced came to a premature close at an early period of its career, owing to circumstances over which its members had no control.
Hence a time of war is the heyday of fallacies and delusions, of misleading hopes and premature disillusionments: men tend to live in an unreal world of phrases and catchwords.
But in truth the disillusionment is as premature as the hopes that preceded it.
She was about thirty, but there were some premature lines round her mouth and eyes, which told of early anxiety.
All this was said in a tone of braggadocio, meant to be exceedingly telling, but it only made Charlie feel that he loathed this swaggering little boy with his premature savoir vivre, more and more.
It may be;--but never mind, I would not wish to be premature in anything.
The agitation at her husband's arrest brought on premature labour, and she was lying in his house in great danger.
His wife had been overtaken by a premature confinement, and was suffering acutely.
Their fate is striking: Agostino, divided from his brother Annibal, sunk into dejection and melancholy, and perished by a premature death, while Annibal closed his days not long after in a state of distraction.
Her face, which was deadly pale, looked worn and pinched by want into that aged, hard look so touching to see in the very young, because it tells of a premature exposure to trial and care, if not of a struggle literally for life.
His education came to a premature end; but his father's martyrdom, though to outward seeming it left him a destitute orphan, really hardened the boy of seventeen into the man and the hero.
Leonides discouraged these questions and speculations, not, it would seem, because he disapproved of them, but because he sensibly thought them premature in so young a child.
The Republic was an excellent paymaster, and it were sorry economy to bring so profitable a business to a premature conclusion.
The plague, or grief at the infidelity of his mistress, brought this great artist to a premature death in 1510.
A dramatic story of the prematuredisclosure of the plot is told in the Venetian State papers.
With infinite resource and indomitable purpose he set himself to avenge the insult to the Church, and, but for the prematurediscovery of the plot, would have wrought the destruction of the Doge and his party.
Now she would be demure, now venturesome, now childishly merry, now assuming a premature sedateness.
Nakú, a metaphysician, but a rather premature one!
Till they do arise, it might be premature to state any rule as being universal in its application.
The opportunity for an effective stroke appeared to be afforded by the Spanish situation, and the general result was a desperate attempt, premature as the event proved, to overthrow Napoleon.
