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Meanings of precocious child in English

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Usage of precocious child in English
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Singleton was a diminutive, dwarfish personage; he looked like a precocious child.
Roderick Hudson
2
Pax chuckled, looking at him as if he were a precocious child.
Hollow World
3
He was a precocious child, and had learned to dress without assistance.
The Settler and the Savage
4
He was not a precocious child, nor pushed forward by early instruction.
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch
5
He was also a precocious child, and probably never even had school friends.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
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Everything connected with the theater was of absorbing interest to this precocious child.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
7
Formerly she had treated him with the free-and-easy pertness of a precocious child.
Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Mi...
8
Anne brings a precocious child named Nora, whom Constance misses when she leaves.
The new yorker
9
Kathleen was a precocious child, with all the potentialities of youth.
The Desert of Wheat
10
Young Gabriel was a most precocious child, and he received an excellent education.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters
11
She looked at her father, and with a precocious child's pity, she said:
Original Short Stories — Volume 02
12
This conversation proved the origin of the precocious child who lay in the cradle.
Welsh Folk-Lore / a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of ...
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She was a precocious child, early matured, and strong in intellectual and emotional experiences.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats ...
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Being a precocious child, he became a remarkable student at the age of eight.
Halleck's New English Literature
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A precocious child is certainly as far as possible from being an interesting one.
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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It is not desirable, therefore, to have a precocious child.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
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