The first ladder dropped swiftly to the position, to be nailed in place by the fastest man the Tray-Spot had.
Just give me another chance, and I'll show you who has the fastest pair of heels.
It was resolved to attack the nearest vessel first; and as she was said to be the fastest sailer, should she be captured, it was hoped that the other would be quickly overtaken.
Nothing is more deceptive than pace; when a man thinks he is going fastest he is generally going slowest.
The fastest sculler for half a mile I have ever seen was Herr Doering, who sculled for the Diamonds in 1887.
The fastest individual passages down to 1891 were made by the Etruria, westwards in six days one hour and forty-seven minutes; and by the Umbria, eastwards in six days three hours and seventeen minutes.
As to speed, some warships built for the Argentine Republic and for Japan had reached a speed of 26-1/4 miles an hour, and were at the time the fastest war-vessels afloat.
The Feringhees can make arms that shoot long distances, and carriages that travel faster than thefastest horse, and great ships and machines.
The third horse simply saved his stake, so that as they will of course divide, they will have paid twenty-five rupees each for the pleasure of riding, and the point which of their tats is the fastest remains unsettled.
But Nana Sahib has had the horse that won the cup at Poona last year, and is considered one of the fastest in India, brought across from Bombay.
This craft is fitted with an 80-horse-power Gnome engine, and is probably thefastest passenger-carrying biplane of its type in the world.
The fastest man can't run more than about ten miles in an hour--not much over ten thousand times his own length.
Jim said he reckoned a balloon was a good deal the fastest thing in the world, unless it might be some kinds of birds--a wild pigeon, maybe, or a railroad.
The Dominican economy has had one of the fastest growth rates in the hemisphere over the past decade.
It is the fastestand strongest steamer that floats, and she will give a good account of herself when the trouble begins in earnest.
Do you think it would be right or proper for your uncle to allow that fine steamer, which I am told is one of the strongest and fastest ever built, to be handed over to the Yankee navy?
She is a steam-yacht of four hundred tons, and the fastest steamer in these waters.
An hour of feverish restlessness elapsed before we heard the doctor’s horse plodding up the avenue in a slow jog-trot, the fastest speed known to the medical fraternity.
Our intimacy was strengthened and made more pleasant by Ned and me becoming members of their club, so that they became our fastest friends, and we had even reached the point of calling them Charlie and Ramie.
I thought we'd got the fastestboat in the harbour.
The fastest run made by a special train on the Great Eastern Railway was accomplished on this date, when the Prince of Wales travelled from St. Pancras to Lynn, a distance of 98 miles, in one hour fifty-five minutes.
And in the same days, Zweibruck and his Reichs Army are vigorously afoot; Zweibruck pushing across the Metal Mountains, the fastest he can; intending to plant himself in Pirna Country.
Daun, I have no doubt, stirred his slow feet the fastest he could.
She was one of the fastest ships plying between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
These speeds made it possible for them to overtake all but the fastest merchantmen, though not fast enough to run away from destroyers, gunboats, and fast cruisers.
All factors considered, we believe that the present champion sculler is the fastest that the world has yet produced, better than even Hanlan at his best.
Except a sculling boat, a pair-oar is the fastest starting of all craft; but if it is thus easy to set in motion at the outset of a race, it is plain that it can be spurted later on as suddenly.
The boat was making thefastest time she had ever made.
The check was signed by one of the largest planters on the coast, and I knew it was good if presented before payment was stopped; so I took passage on the Mary Kean (one of the fastest boats on the river), bound for New Orleans.
I was glad to see the old fellow so far from home, so I told the pilot that the Natchez was the fastest boat on the Mississippi; and Captain Leathers went down to see the boys and the barkeeper.
The Mercury was unleashed and hunting down its lost lead in thefastest speed of the day.
I say--why did you especially warn me that the road wouldn't be fit for fast going until to-morrow, then get out in your own machine and break all practice records for the fastest lap?
Nor do the fastest dogs, however well they may be broken, always truly hunt the most ground.
He had his enemies in plain sight, within a league of him, and in chase of his two fastest craft.
Well, governor, I don't know which counts up the fastest in the colony, children or whales?
That schooner, which was regularly pilot-boat built, was the fastest craft about the islands, and it was a great matter to put head-quarters on board her.
The Nina was the fastest vessel in light airs and smooth water, but she was also the smallest.
Our horses without exception proved the fastest runners, accordingly we pocketed considerable coin, and in consequence we were feeling first rate when we struck the trail homeward bound.
I heard afterwards that the Indians persued me that night for quite a distance, but I had too much the start and besides I had the fastest horse the Indians owned.
His boat was one of the fastest on the ocean, and he needed only to put on steam to escape all the blockaders on the coast.
The armored cruiser "Brooklyn," designed to be one of the fastest and most powerful vessels of her class afloat, was launched from Cramp's shipyard in Philadelphia in 1895.
He passed all the fastest horses, and in a moment he was among the buffalo.
In this way, the man who had the fastest horse would be the most likely to kill the calf.
Then all the warriors and the young men picked out their best and fastest horses, and made ready to start.
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