A Sparrow upbraided her and said, "Where now is thy remarkable
swiftness of foot?
On emerging from the Bastille, Gringoire descended the Rue Saint-Antoine with the
swiftness of a runaway horse.
The two borzois of the huntsman who had sighted him, having been the nearest, were the first to see and pursue him, but they had not gone far before Ilagin's red-spotted Erza passed them, got within a length, flew at the hare with terrible
swiftness aiming at his scut, and, thinking she had seized him, rolled over like a ball.
Let Providence claim the
swiftness of electricity and of light, of the stars, the comets, and the planets, of wind and sound-- we claim to have invented the
swiftness of the cannon-ball, a hundred times superior to that of the swiftest horses or railway train.
It is the way of the Alps to deliver death to their victims with a merciful
swiftness, but here the rule failed.
I had thought his short legs a bar to
swiftness, but had he been coursing with greyhounds the latter would have appeared as though asleep on a door mat.
All this had happened with such
swiftness that I had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light.
Though from his bulk, and rolling gait, he does not appear to run with much
swiftness; yet, it takes a stanch horse to overtake him, when at full speed on level ground; and a buffalo cow is still fleeter in her motion.
She showed that alertness, that
swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life--those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.
Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set --all the paddles plying; with rippling
swiftness, shooting to leeward; and Ahab heading the onset.
Baseek was surprised by the other's temerity and
swiftness of attack.
Now the whole spindle has the same motion; but, as the whole revolves in one direction, the seven inner circles move slowly in the other, and of these the swiftest is the eighth; next in
swiftness are the seventh, sixth, and fifth, which move together; third in
swiftness appeared to move according to the law of this reversed motion the fourth; the third appeared fourth and the second fifth.