It was Washington's earnest advice that the army should advance with celerity along Braddock's road; but other advice prevailed, and the army commemorated its march by moving slowly and constructing a new route to the Ohio.
The officers who served in the corps attributed the comparative loss to the celerity of their attack and the use of the broadsword, which the enemy could never withstand.
With a celerity that would at least have done credit to a bear, I regained the ground, having caught but a momentary glimpse of the country, but enough to convince me no lake was near.
Without moving from the spot on which we stood, we recharged our pieces with a degree of celerity that, I am persuaded, we never before equalled.
The measures of he conspirators were conducted with the deliberate coolness and celerity which the greatness of the occasion required.
In one instance only, they may be compared, with some degree of propriety, in the celerity of their motions, and their civil victories.
Before he could establish his authority, or finish the negotiation which he appears to have entered into with his son Maxentius, the celerity of Constantine defeated all his hopes.
After that, he grew every day more unlike himself than before, not only in other parts of Eloquence, but by a gradual decay of the former celerity and elegant texture of his language.
Experience has shown, that the success of an invader most commonly depends on the vigor and celerity of his operations.
To Maximin and Priscus also he drank, and then with ready celerity the slaves cleared the dishes from the table, and another service as splendid as the first supplied its place.
It was Hideyoshi's foible to surpass all his predecessors and contemporaries alike in the magnitude of his designs and in the celerity of their achievement.
With lightning-like celerity the arms of the first man were pinioned, and when the others turned to fly they found their egress cut off by the three Prices, who stood pointing menacing revolvers at them.
Ostlers prided themselves upon the celerity with which the change of horses was effected, and passengers were expected to be equally quick; I was bustled inside (my place had been taken days previously) before I had time to think twice.
He acted with the celerity of one stung by a bee as he reached up and brushed the offending fire from his skin.
I fail to impress you with the celerity of the transaction.
Maggy shook her hair down and slipped out of her clothes with the celerity that comes of practise between the acts.
The celerity with which she was whirled from the affluence of Piccadilly and Regent Street to the grimy purlieus of the King's Cross Road had a disheartening effect upon her.
With equal celerity the next dozen were disposed of.
These were confirmed, and fresh regulations added, towards 1664.
The square will remain for ever memorable as the scene of the execution of Louis XVI.
Such a fall is the result of reflection, of careful calculation, intended as a test of the ardour and celerity of aspiring suitors.
The neighboring villages caught up those oracular words, and it is incredible with what celerity they spread everywhere around into places the most distant.
The rebellious army, astonished as much by the celerity of his march as the fury of his attack, was totally routed.
I therefore stood upon the offensive and the defensive, which caused my assailants to flee in the greatest confusion, and with such celerity that I was unable to make any of them prisoners.
Amputations were still being performed with skill and celerity worthy of a Guthrie or an Astley Cooper.
Wonderful was the kindness and celeritywith which the doctors performed the operations.
I must say, the precision and celerity with which this fleet was embarked and despatched was admirable.
Besides, the bottom being nearer the surface, it heats quicker, and this heat, which the bottom of the vessel receives, contributes still more to the celerity of the evaporation.
It is by this happy expedient that the respect which is due to the popular voice is combined with the utmostcelerity of execution and those precautions which the peace of the country demands.
The sheep was seized and flung down on his side and held there; and the students took off his coat with great celerity and adroitness.
Have you read the newspaper stories of a certain negro scout, who, by his intrepidity, intelligence, and wonderful celerity of movement, has rendered such important services to the Army of the Cumberland?
Or if you and Ropes," retorted Bythewood, "had only put through the job with the celerity I had a right to expect of you, he would have been strung up before the colonel had a chance to interfere.
To one unaccustomed to such a scene, it would have been marvellous in itscelerity and freedom from confusion.
The French found on the summit of the Alps every species of ammunition and other necessities which the celerity of their march had prevented them from carrying.
They finally withdrew, panic-stricken, continuing their retreat with such celerity as to gain time to rally on the roads leading to Bohemia, all others being closed against them.
He again hastened to the succor of his capital, and came, with the prodigious celerity which rendered his marches and manoeuvres so distinguishing, to fall upon the rear of Blucher, who still had Marmont and Mortier in front.
Fanchette, a big Berrichon countrywoman, who was considered a better cook than even La Cognette, ran in to receive the order with a celerity which said much for the doctor's despotism, and something also for her own curiosity.
In ten days the furniture was sold, the appartement given up, and the change in Agathe's domestic arrangements accomplished with a celerity seldom seen outside of Paris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "celerity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
