| How many minds have there been of such capacity and precocity? |
| Three years later the boy's intellectual precocity was noticed, and a group of local businessmen clubbed together to send the youth to North America to study. |
| Hardy showed precocity with arithmetic and passed examinations with distinction in mathematics and Latin at Cranleigh School. |
| But there seemed to be a kind of clear-sightedness, a kind of precocity that co-existed with that point in life. |
| His intellectual precocity, and his dedication to work, which remained compulsive from boyhood onwards, are characteristic. |
| She, like her brother, studied composition with Zelter and revealed comparable precocity and ability. |
