How To Use Promptness In A Sentence
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All my heart, all my affection, all my admiration, went out spontaneously to this frisky little forked black thing, this compact and compressed incarnation of energy and force and promptness and celerity and confidence, this smart, smily, engaging, shiney-eyed little devil, feruled on his upper end by a gleaming fire-coal of a fez with a red-hot tassel dangling from it.
Following the Equator, Part 5
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Who takes action, and with what promptness, against teachers seen to be even brazenly shirking their duties?
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Here, on the contrary, your volunteers "do their spiriting gently:" all is good-nature and good manners; and a front is diminished, or a column of companies in line of march is eased off to the right or left to make way for carts or coaches, as the case requires, with a promptness which is the more creditable from the fact that the execution of a change in movement is no light matter.
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Bryan said that the removal of the demand for 'promptness' also gave companies more certainty.
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With great promptness Camelot brought the present proceedings for judicial review.
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He recalled his promptness of resource and readiness for action.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
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As part of this contract, orders for NHS medicines are dispensed for patients on demand with reasonable promptness.
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My self-righteousness faded immediately, for the principal replied with astonishing promptness and courtesy.
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The promptness of the administration when it comes to demolishing our houses and arresting us is admirable.
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And honestly, I tend to agree with Marvel when it comes to the 'late or half assed' question, DC seems to think promptness covers up for mediocrity.
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From analysis by Buchner and Herberger, it is shown that the root contains a new principle called berberine, which acts like rhubarb, and with equal promptness and activity.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Well, sir, I feel that I owe you a great deal; perhaps more than I realize, as I recall your promptness on that memorable night of the storm.
A Day of Fate
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Now I wonder how he sees my slatternly ways given his own promptness.
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Silly" is a term carrying with it a certain promptness and decision; above all, it was a very remarkable word for Lucy to use.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
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I say, then, that the first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit, that it shall not impel and tumultuate as formerly; that it shall not entice and draw aside; that it shall not disquiet and perplex the killing of its life, vigour, promptness, and readiness to be stirring.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
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Because of the large and unrestricted increase in the volume of patients and the resultant budgetary constraints, the quality of care and the promptness of care can surely be affected.
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The reis was a sleepy old crock," Belmont continued; "but I have absolute confidence in the promptness and decision of my wife.
A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
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Articles 5 and 6 both deal with the promptness with which an adjudication must proceed against criminal defendants.
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Still the promptness to laugh is an excellent progenitorial foundation for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is witness to the spouting of laughter.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
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a stickler for promptness
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Upon its promptness rests its existence, for if it sits idly by, soothfully proclaiming that what ought not to be cannot be, it will find the roof beams crashing about its head.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
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And with equal promptness came the "Eight hundred," of the voyageur.
The Wit of Porportuk
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While this site says little about the claimed nutritional benefits of wheatgrass and offers only a few recipes, the service is efficient and e-mail queries were answered with friendly promptness.
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It said that the 'promptness' criterion, which was up to a court's discretion, was not compatible with the Directive.
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