Pray do not think me premature In making known my feelings so, For I have loved you steadfastly, O damsel of the unknown name,

My house-deaths have generally been periodical, recurring after seven years; but this last is premature by half that time.

But these remarks, though premature as criticisms, are not uncalled for here, even while we are speaking of a child not more than ten years old.

In alluding to these means it would obviously be premature at this time to anticipate that which is offered merely as matter for consultation, or to pronounce upon those measures which have been or may be suggested.

Their task could not have been so worthily performed in the fifteenth century as in the sixteenth, if the development of the aesthetic sense had been more premature among the Venetians.

A death which seems premature for a man as sound and strong in constitution as in judgment struck down Philip Augustus at the age of only fifty-eight, as he was on his way from Pacy-sur-Eure to Paris to be present at the council which was to meet there and once more take up the affair of the Albigensians.