swiftness

How To Use swiftness In A Sentence

• Thank you all very much," she said -- and was gone, with a kind of elephantine swiftness. Captain Jim
• Should he go slowly or with decisive swiftness?
• The image has the swiftness of haiku, with its undetermined but focused looking.
• However, towards that fly a fishing-boat was already darting with the swiftness of a water beetle, and causing its two oars to show quiveringly red and grey, while from the marshier of the two banks there began hastily to put out a second boat which leapt in the steamer’s wash with the gaiety of a young calf. Through Russia
• Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the exact prosodist will find the line of swiftness by one time longer than that of tardiness. Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
• Time had eroded all things: the circus tents, the faces of young performers, the swiftness of reactions and the size of audiences.
• To him who knows not the burden of process -- the attributes that are to claim attention with every epocha of the performance -- all attempt at swiftness will be mere pretence. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
• The smell of the haar, and the swiftness of its arrival, had unnerved him. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
• 11 Arabia, in the opinion of the naturalist, is the genuine and original country of the horse; the climate most propitious, not indeed to the size, but to the spirit and swiftness, of that generous animal. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• They pulled on their packs, put on their boots, pulled up their hoods, and paid the innkeeper with silent swiftness.