How To Use Swift In A Sentence

The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
After squinting in an attempt to discern a couple of features to make the object recognizable, he began walking swiftly towards it.
They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

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If you want my opinion, it's a bastard of a game - swift, bold and beautiful.
Everything could have been normalized quite swiftly. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible. Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Transport aircraft carrying supplies kept the German columns moving swiftly, and finally relentless bombing helped to force Warsaw into submission.
He struck out for the dry ground of fact, and stated it in prose Swift would have been proud of. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The uproar in both cases was swift and decisive. Times, Sunday Times
Ministers will be given powers to remove weak heads swiftly if they are unable to provide a blueprint for improvement. The Sun
He rose to his feet in one swift movement.
Thanks to a swift horse powered by a mysterious elixir, he intercepts Domenico, wounding him mortally.
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Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Yuvraj takes a swift two through mid-wicket, and then late cuts past short-third man for four with the help of a misfield by Graeme Swann! Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Summon one of the swiftest of the coria and have it wait in readiness," he added, as though by afterthought. The Moon Pool
Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
The allusions are swift, the collisions reminiscent of the ‘ply over ply’ technique of Ezra Pound's Cantos, but to more disjunctive ends.
But if they existed, they were too swift for her consciousness to register. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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 fuel gages dropped swiftly.
With swift strokes, she rowed away from the dock.
We watched the building vanish under a mantle of thick grey smoke as the fire swiftly moved through it.
Luckily for the neighbours, the musical learning process was swift. Times, Sunday Times
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. Jonathan Swift
Good footwork consists essentially in the ability to move swiftly from one position to another without sacrificing balance.
There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture. Timaeus
The market's reaction was swift and brutal.
Seeing the potential of its software besmirching the Symantec name irreparably, Symantec's CEO surged forward with a new plan: re-write its security software to make it the best in the industry, so as to super-strengthen its stranglehold on the summit of sales supremacy while swiftly swinging its way back into the good books of consumers. ITWire - Latest Headlines
The team's decision came with relative swiftness.
He took swift and firm action, thereby saving the life of the future president of the Chinese Republic.
Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
He closed the door and wabbled swiftly down the long drab hall of the “railroad flat,” evidently trying to walk straight. Our Mr. Wrenn
Swift Transportation pulled a planned $1.07 billion refinancing that the trucking company expected to reprice at 3.5 percentage points over Libor with a minimum rate of 4.75%, according to a person familiar with the deal. High-Yield Bond Issues, Loan Repricings Pulled; Treasurys Rise
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 if some receive swift and exemplary punishment it will serve as a deterrent to the rest. Times, Sunday Times
When Bath won an attacking scrum on the right and Swift began to drift across his marker did not follow him.
Yet their slide towards obscurity - Liverpool supporters have been starved of silverware - has not only been halted, but looks, on the face of it, to be making a swift volte-face.
Any questions that veer away from the topic that is uppermost in her mind are swiftly redirected. Times, Sunday Times
Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. Little Dorrit
Hounds moved off to draw Pinner Wood, where they found and went away across Hallows Farm, down Mapley and ran swiftly to Lannersmead, where he went to ground.
As I turned to unjam the chair and open the door he moved swiftly to my side. The Legacy
Swifts jinked and swooped in the enclosed space with the grace of dolphins.
As for getting swift action, our 30-year wait speaks for itself.
Expecting to have to moderate their pace so as not to overstride their diminutive hosts, the travelers found themselves having to hurry to keep up, so swift were the Swick's feathered earthbound mounts. Carnivores of Light and Darkness
As Clifford Geertz has argued, in a witty and perceptive essay on Benedict, in itself the book is perhaps better seen as a kind of Swiftian satire, in which the alienness of Japan is used to unsettle US assumptions about the naturalness of their own society, than as a work of 'scienti c' anthropology (Geertz 1988; see also Lummis 1982). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The wife's questioning is swift and incisive, causing her husband first to reveal a trickle of information, then a cascade.
A challenger must come into the open and secure swift support across all wings of the party against the incumbent.
Without co-listers, many high-profile borough mayor candidates could find themselves swiftly saying bye-bye to their political careers.
The climbers were like spidermen, swiftly moving their bodies on the almost vertical man-made hills.
This problem calls for swift/prompt action from the government.
Congressman John Murtha is blasting what he calls swift boat style attacks stemming from his fight with Steny Hoyer. CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006
When, presently, Louis's voice came to her, she turned with a swift vision of him as King Amfortas with the unstaunchable wound. Captivity
A leading campaigner in the push to reopen Rochdale Canal has called on Rochdale Council to act swiftly to create a boatyard in Littleborough.
But few investors could see a similarly swift end to their ordeal. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
But in most parts of it, the red carpet so eagerly unrolled for me is swiftly jerked out from under his feet.
He's a completely loathsome and utterly shallow creep and I look forward to a swift garotting moment in the very near future. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
But the idea of coaxing Viscount Rawleigh down to Cornwall died a swift death. Unforgiven
These were lively, swift-moving knockabout sketches with a slightly risqué edge for its young audience.
A government cloaked and soaked in secrecy swiftly becomes rotten and corrupt. Times, Sunday Times
Victory for the allied coalition was swift and decisive. A Rock and a Hard Place
Too staid for the formation of ripples, too swift for calm content, the river seemed to boil up from below in a kind of frolicsome rage. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
Two other endangered birds, the swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) and the regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phyrigia), were regularly seen in the region 20 to 30 years ago but are now rarely if ever encountered. Naracoorte woodlands
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
Swift had visited the Royal Society where he would have seen the Gilbertian terrella described in the catalogue as “an orbicular loadstone, about four inches and 1/2 in Diameter.” COSMIC VOYAGES
The disgraced minister walked swiftly from the car to his house pursued by a whole posse of reporters.
They like the idea of swift and certain justice. Times, Sunday Times
This theory does rely upon a swift resolution, and a prolonged conflict would have an equally opposite and negative reaction to the rebound in the global economy and stock markets.
Complexity is also a feature of those real-life markets in which convergence also is neither swift nor automatic.
At a swift 80 minutes, part with your fistful of dollars for this tale that delivers an unconventional but honest approach. The Sun
For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
Whether up on their toes, skittering swiftly in small steps, or smoothly swiveling, this is liquid loveliness.
Karwoski, a high-flier on the Scottish business scene, was in a plane headed to New York which was swiftly grounded at Memphis airport as US air space shut down completely.
Skepticism regarding the new officer was confirmed after he appeared in camp at Swift Run Gap wearing a conspicuous Prince Albert coat and large beaver hat, holding an umbrella to shield himself from the sun, as troops jeered him.
From Mexico, the spread of viticulture followed swiftly on the heels of Spanish conquests.
The topographic map is the essential tool for moving swiftly and efficiently through the backcountry.
Mr Brennan said this effect could be multiplied with the swift introduction of more dedicated lanes.
Moshe," said the Rabbi, passing swiftly and quietly through the hall. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
The great cave behind the falls is the roosting place of hundreds of swifts; at evening they dart in and out of the gorge before braving the torrent to spend the night behind Kaieteur's curtain.
Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion. Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
The ship made the transition from its rectangular cruising shape to the multibranched ovoid shape that was its battle mode, and it made the change swiftly and smoothly. The Three-Minute Universe
Just 15 % of businesses favour the certainty of a swift deal. Times, Sunday Times
He turned swiftly, favoring his injured leg, lifting the longsword threateningly -- then relaxed, grinning. Conan
Swift half visions of her loveliness – of certain delectable details of her face or figure flitted always before him. The Miller of Old Church
And during the campaign we had to listen to the not so Swift boaters challenging Kerry who did put his ass on the line unlike the awarder of these Medals of Freedom. Balkinization
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. Jonathan Swift
It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
The method was applied to find the orbit of Swift's comet of 1880 and involved less computation than Gauss's method.
Eskimo kaiak or skin boat, made of dressed seal hides stretched around a framework of whale ribs or wood, with an opening in the top only large enough to accommodate the sitting body of one man, is one of the most perfect contrivances in the world for water travel, being light, swift, and practically unsinkable. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The top of the stick smashed the man's nose, sending him stumbling backwards before a swift slash caught him in the neck and threw him to the ground.
It has attempted to act swiftly in the wake of the scandal. Times, Sunday Times
He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!” At a Welsh Wedding
Deliphine was then twirling the sword with her hands and with one swift movement, she pointed it at him.
York probably regretted batting first on a grassy track as Harrogate's quickies, Dave Pennett and Khalid Hussain, made swift inroads so that the visitors were reduced to 59-7 after 27 overs.
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
He changed direction swiftly, turned into the hallway and headed her off.
With sensible planning and swift adoption of new technologies, governments can still make the planet work. Times, Sunday Times
His instinct was to blank his questioners, shake hands with the leader and exit swiftly.
His account of his ascent to the upper echelons of the British literary canon is so concise and unembellished, so, well, Swiftian, it could have been delivered by one of his own characters.
And thanks to some incredible technology, its turbocharged 875cc two-cylinder petrol engine is smooth, hyper-efficient and very swift. Times, Sunday Times
Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
Director Guy Ritchie keeps it all moving at a quick enough pace, but going through the motions swiftly is still going through the motions. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Sherlock Holmes, An Education, The Baader Meinhof Complex, and More | /Film
Atlético were a threat on the counter-attack and they proved it with a swift and incisive move eight minutes before half-time to take the lead. Times, Sunday Times
With a few swift blows of the axe, she severed the cable.
He took a short length of rope and swiftly tied a slip knot.
A woodpecker called loudly in the beech wood; a "wish-wish" in the air overhead was caused by the swift motion of a wood-pigeon passing from "holt" to "hurst," from copse to copse. The Life of the Fields
He glanced swiftly around him like one half afraid, and Gertie saw he looked palish, as if he had been sick or some time indoors. The Dollmaker
Swift employs what is fundamentally a trope of garrulity: a single voice is allowed to soliloquize at length.
Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled. The Portion of Labor
Ready!" attacked in his turn, striking hard and as swiftly as he could, but _crack, crack, crack_, wherever he struck, there was the defensive sapling; and at last, with his arm and shoulder aching, the boy lowered his point and stood panting, with his brow moist with beads of perspiration. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War
In one swift move, he has learned that life is tough at the cutting edge of Scottish journalism and if you can't hack it, put a knot in it.
Presumably the title is designed to suggest the swift and deadly strike of the venomous snake.
He lifted his legs above his torso and pushed swiftly away, launching himself onto his feet.
The settlement of international transactions is usually handled through correspondent banking relationships or large-value message and payment systems, such as SWIFT, Fedwire or CHIPS systems in the United States of America. CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006
He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered. Underworld
Moving swiftly along, the publishing industry certainly seems to agree with me.
He was swift to condemn the violence/in condemning the violence.
Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.
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Other birds include: the endemic Seychelles bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris, blue pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrima, Seychelles sunbird Nectarinia dussamieri, Seychelles kestrel Falco araea and an endemic cave-nesting swiftlet Collocalia francica elaphra. Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles
Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
And let me inform you, Joe, that there are far swifter and more effective means than brainwashing to get what we want out of you. THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings.
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
This is not a land where outright military victory comes easily or swiftly. Times, Sunday Times
Because of our coalitionist form of government, decisions are not always made as swiftly as people in the administration would like. J. Weekly
One minute the afternoon air had been filled with the chatter of swifts as the birds wheeled through the air above the town's streets. Times, Sunday Times
Or, in this particular reenactment, not so swiftly. Times, Sunday Times
She has no grace or charm, but she is a deadly huntress, and her swift movement towards her prey is like a snake's, smooth and fast. ON CATS
I heard now and then a sound that resembled the swift flight of a bird or the sudden "ting" of a telegraph-wire. The Dark Forest
And you think that immersing your bones here will automatically result in your swift despatch to the heavens?
This research could provide swifter methods to acclimatising astronauts entering microgravity (as well as those returning to Earth).
Cosmographer, to finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one mysticall citie vniuersall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmopoliticall gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
Betsy Devine is giving a talk about “vandal waves” on Wikipedia pages, using the swiftboating page as an example. Scripting News for 8/6/2006 « Scripting News Annex
Practice indicates, We can Utilize XML technology to realize the convenient and swift custom-tailor service online.
Nature notes For the last two months, swifts have been circling in the sky above the houses where they had their nests in the eaves. Times, Sunday Times
The horse stepped out with swift, regular stride, rapidly passing the milestone.
A flink dab for a freck dive and a stern poise for a swift pounce was frankily at the manual arith sure enough which was the bekase he knowed from his cradle, no bird better, why his fingures were giving him whatfor to fife with. Finnegans Wake
Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
His comments brought a swift rebuke from both state and federal National Party MPs.
But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god. The Bacchantes
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift
If you want Swift to be a dark ironist rather than a facile pamphleteer, you might examine the premises that make his fable so easy to digest.
Instead, member states will contribute forces from their own militaries with a focus on swift, precise operations. Times, Sunday Times
We wanted swifts, but are pleased nonetheless to have finished up with sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
She was a devotee in Swifty's, the successor to her beloved Mortimer's, and she lunched and dined there often.
The government swiftly denied this but news footage of fighting outside banks has not helped to allay public fears. Times, Sunday Times
But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning.
Developing foetuses cannot be defined as a ‘race’ in any meaningful sense, and a seriously planned attempt to wipe them out would swiftly exterminate the human race.
Perhaps this is strictly my own usage, but I think of careering as “moving swiftly and effectively”, and careening as “moving fast and uncontrolledly”. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan in The Life of Swift [3], which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as 'A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men; 'that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated. Life Of Johnson
You take swift decisions and make quick changes when situations are tense and demanding.
Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
a swift runner
He heard the bolt of his door snick open, and he tucked the spoon swiftly into his sleeve, standing.
The implication from these results is that Leptosomus is definitely not a 'core coraciiform' (and definitely not a roller) and that, while its precise affinities remain rather unclear, it represents some sort of ancient lineage that might lie within the region of the tree that includes 'nightbirds' and swifts, or piciforms and/or 'core coraciiforms'. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Then canoe and bateau answered to the swift current of the Mackenzie, and they plunged into the Great Barren Ground. In a Far Country
Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. A Review of 'Alroy'
He apologised for keeping me waiting (although it was our photographer who had delayed him) and swiftly swept away his papers to make way for me.
Perhaps forgotten as the London of Jack the Ripper receded into the past, the idea of an oral swiftie was re-exported to Europe and far beyond by a massive arrival of American soldiers. As American as Apple Pie
Swift said the growing sophistication among biotech investors presented an opportunity for a more specialist investment fund.
But these clumsy attempts to prevent its publication only promoted the swift growth of interest in the book.
This problem calls for swift/prompt action from the government.
Egypt's newly elected president yesterday crushed any hopes of a swift pardon for three journalists given lengthy prison sentences by a Cairo court. Times, Sunday Times
In 2008, JBS purchased Smithfield Beef for $565 million and in 2007 acquired U.S. meatpacker Swift & Co. for $225 million. JBS Hits Financing Hurdles Pursuing Sara Lee
The parley, so far as Raoul was concerned, proved fruitless, and he went back into his own lines convinced that the men on the Big Rock could hold out for years, though he would have been swiftly unconvinced could he have observed Tehaa and the Raiateans, the moment his back was turned and he was out of sight, crawling over the rocks and sucking and crunching the scraps his dog had left uneaten. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
The arrival of spring is associated with the flowers of the hawthorn, the return of the swifts and, of course, the violet-blue carpets of bluebells.
Where but a few moments before had been men were only grotesque heaps, swiftly melting, swiftly rounding into the the semblance of the mounds that lay behind us — and already beginning to take on their gleam of ancient viridescence! The Moon Pool
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
The speed of the current in her veins was just then as swift as it was viewless. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
You may also find cuckoos, kingbirds, flycatchers, swifts, swallows, orioles, and tanagers in the fall.
Overloading a timephase-shifted phaser or disruptor to detonation will create a massive chroniton field and should draw a large response from personnel seeking to disperse it swiftly. The Starfleet Survival Guide
The brother's got the boastful swagger of your favorite rapper, the entrepreneurial instincts of a street hustler and a pen as swift as his tongue is sharp.
This is the bloom of the alfileria, and swiftly it spreads from the southern slopes, where it begins, and runs from meadow to hill-top. Our Italy
When she could hear not a sound she went swiftly from her room, through the sitting-room, and into the bathroom.
He reached into his backpack for black nylon rope which he swiftly whipped around the circumference of a nearby chimney.
I really wish my rabbit had just come up to me at some point and said, ‘I say, mumsy, I have a minor flesh wound here, would you care to escort me to the veterinarian in the swiftest manner possible?’
We move swiftly past riotously colonised rock faces of the cliffs into the eerie green water below the arch.
The women are swiftly moved to avoid detection. Times, Sunday Times
This involves a fiddly little mat and swift slicing action. Times, Sunday Times
Apart from the four men sitting opposite each other in side-by-side pairs at one end of a long polished table - Corunna and Green opposite Harlow and Vynn - there was a woman court reporter who, on her swift typing machine, wrote down every word verbatim. The Elvis Latte
He can be unpredictable, able to move swiftly round the ring and be elusive, but has the height and reach to stand and trade blows.
Unchallenged wisdoms flow swiftly among the middle classes.
She lifted the bouquet from the ground, and then, as if inwardly ashamed at having stepped aside from her maidenly reserve to respond to a stranger's greeting, passed swiftly homeward through the garden.
He acknowledged the letter swiftly. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
The 7th West Virginia swiftly countermarched to the Valley and again found themselves pursuing the wily Confederate commander.
Sergeant Andy Swift said the soldiers were raring to go.
I applaud his swift-footed move: Like the toreador who dodged the bull at the last milisecond, he escaped being gored.
Once the opposing side's defences had been penetrated, swiftly moving mechanized forces would create local encirclements and then, in conjunction with airborne and airmobile forces, enter the pursuit phase.
Fang “became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent.” Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
Hundreds of tiny damselfishes dart around in shoals, finning their swift way through sunlit waters.
Liv raised her arms over her head and then dove swiftly into the water.
M. Wastchenko possesses in an eminent degree what Swift calls the aldermanly, but never to be over estimated quality, Discretion; he was considered generally a very safe man. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
They warned the Clinton campaign against engaging in what they called slime politics and Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated. CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007

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