Unfortunately, these views were not disappointed: conviction, interest, or fear, prevailed on many to take the oath; while doubt, worldly improvidence, or a scrupulous piety, deterred others.

Like a young rake coming into a very large inheritance, we attacked this noble fauna with characteristic American improvidence, and with a rapidity compared with which the Glacial advance was eternally slow; the East went first, and in fifty years we have brought about an elimination in the West which promises to be even more radical than that effected by the ice.

Baillie calls this surrender of the city "an example rarely paralleled, if not of treachery, yet at least of childish improvidence and base cowardice" (ii. 259).

Otherwise he would be guilty of criminal improvidence.

There, as at the factory, he could see himself arriving in poverty, as a needy tenant begging his landlord to repair a roof, in order that the rain might no longer pour down on the four children, whom, with culpable improvidence, he already had to provide for.

For this, however, their own careless improvidence is primarily responsible.

They lived there on next to nothing; they owed money, they typified gay improvidence with the four little mouths which they already had to feed, those children who had sprung from their love, their faith in life.

In short, not to buy a fur coat at this moment was an act of gross improvidence, a wrong to one's family, a ... a ...

"There is but little light, and portable property in that house in Clapham that has escaped my lamentable improvidence, but there are one or two thingsthe iron-bound chest, the bureau with a broken hinge, and the large air pumpdistinctly pawnable if only you can contrive to get them to a pawnshop.

The English, with their usual thoughtless improvidence, threw about their money so carelessly, that, soon after their arrival, every article of household consumption doubled and trebled in price, the remuneration for labour rising in proportion.

He had conquered by his divine improvidence; the poor man had vanquished the wealthy.