swiftness

How To Use swiftness In A Sentence

• However, after a little, the raft glided into open air and I saw before me a wide valley, whereinto the river fell with a noise like the rolling of thunder and a swiftness as the rushing of the wind. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The team's decision came with relative swiftness.
• Editor's note: WRT "swiftness": NASA posted it at Jan 26, 2009 02: 34: 18 PM Jeff Hanley's Latest Update From the Denial Zone - NASA Watch
• But the young man was prepared, and turning he ran with the swiftness of a hare toward the nearest tree, a huge, arboraceous fern towering upon the verge of the little clearing. The Eternal Savage
• I would have seized him; but he eluded me, and quitted the house with precipitation: in a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves. Chapter 3
• This Triumph, was drawne by sixe lasciuious Centaures, which came of the fallen seede of the sausy and presumpteous _Ixion_: with a furniture of gold vpon them, and a long their strong sides, like horses, excellently framed and illaqueated in manner of a flagon chayne, whereby they drewe the Tryumph; such as _Ericthonius_ neuer inuented, for swiftnesse. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
• I often have the most beautiful notions scampering through my head with the grace, but alas! the swiftness too, of kittens, especially just before I get asleep; but they're all lost for the want of a trap; an intellectual figgery four. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
• Perhaps more than anything else it was the swiftness of the company's demise that stunned so many onlookers.
• It has been appropriately called the saurian whale, for it has both the swiftness and the rapid movements of this monster of our own day. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
• The story proper is dispatched, with deadpan swiftness, in the summary that precedes the study: a boy, Stephen, was hit by a slow-moving car; his knee was injured, infection set in, and he was hospitalized with a quite severe condition called osteomyelitis. New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis