She hid in the copse like a wary cricket, And the fleetesthunters in vain pursue.
It is the Pish-tah-te-koosh of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assinneboin.
Strangers, the bark you see, doth say Of ships the fleetest far was she.
Then the hero Lemminkainen, Made from cares the fleetest racers, Sable racers from his sorrows, Reins he made from days of evil, From his sacred pains made saddles.
By all these signs, which belong to the purest blood, the people of the village knew that she was of the fleetest reared in Arabia.
No one could catch him because the mare he had stolen was the fleetest in Great Tartary.
The son of Peleus darted away a spear's throw from him; swift as the swoop of a black hunter-eagle which is the strongest and fleetest of all birds, even so did he spring forward, and the armour rang loudly about his breast.
We two can fly as swiftly as Zephyrus who they say is fleetest of all winds; nevertheless it is your doom to fall by the hand of a man and of a god.
He rode back to camp beside Mescal, drove the sheep, and put Silvermane to his fleetest to beat Black Bolly down the level stretch where once the gray, even with freedom at stake, had lost to the black.
Because he had found health and strength, because he could shoot, because he had the fleetest horse on the desert, were these reasons for their friendship?
There was an immediate halt; the fleetest horses were forthwith mounted and the party advanced to the summit of the hill.
The packs were scarcely off the backs of the mules, when the runners, mounted on the fleetest horses, were full tilt after the buffalo.
Sometimes the Diggers aspire to nobler game, and succeed in entrapping the antelope, the fleetest animal of the prairies.
Springing upon his fleetest horse, and abandoning the other to the enemy, he made for the mountains, and succeeded in escaping up one of the most dangerous defiles.
Harry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, the fleetest and most fearless of England's youthful hunters, looked up into Lionel's admiring face.
Canobie Jock," a well known voluble neighbour of his, partial to keeping up a breed of terriers and foxhounds of the right sort, had one of the former which he boasted was the fleetest dog of its kind in the parish.
Among other minor prizes at Langwathby, a pair of garters was given to the boy who proved himself to be the fleetest runner.
When deprived of his horse, which he is ready, at a moment's warning, to convert into food by killing, his spirits are as buoyant as if he was mounted on the fleetest charger.
Four of the men immediately saddled the fleetest of the remaining horses and instantly gave chase.
The lightest word, the fleetest smile of the renowned highwayman, threw the world into a fit of excitement, and a glimpse of Rann was worth a king's ransom.
He was fired upon by the guards, and General Harmar instantly sent a number of hisfleetest runners, including several Indians, in pursuit.
But Boone was not so young as when he had his former desperate encounters with the red men, and the dozen warriors who instantly sped after him were among the fleetest of their tribe.
If this were the case, and here history is in accord with tradition, the Arabian horses must have been, what they still are on their native soil, the fleetest and best in the world.
Take the fleetest of our horses and ride after Monsieur Norman and the young ladies.
That war-party has taken one hundred horses in the last raid into Blackfoot or Peagin territory; well, the whole tribe are free to help themselves to the best and fleetest steeds before the captors will touch one out of the band.
He is the fleetest runner that I ever knew; and sailors make but poor comparative headway on land.
He had no uneasiness or doubt in trusting to his speed; for, inured by daily exercise, he had long been considered the boldest leaper and fleetest runner in all the country side.
To guard against these dangers, Harold and Gurth took the most powerful and fleetesthorses in the camp, and they called out a small but strong guard of well-selected men to escort them.
Give me the fleetest mustang in your stable, take my tired one, and I will pay you what you please.
And he bade us hire three of thefleetest saddle-horses to be found.
But how the coach of state lumbers and lags With messages of love whose own light wings Glide through all bars, outstrip all fleetest things-- No bird so light, no thought so fleet as they.
Not clogged by matter, fast as fleetest birds, Wishing to go, they go; to come, they come.
Madly leaping on his fleetest horse, without saddle, and often without bridle, he wildly gallops down the wind, as the roaring, crackling fire gains upon him.
The said persons may then mount their fleetest horse and be out of sight ere the recruiting sergeant arrives.
Mr. Primrose had a servant in livery, and arms painted on his carriage door, and the fleetest of horses.
Sam came next, and then Alec with the lightest but by far the fleetest train in the whole party.
A few more lessons in the harness, with a growling, cross sleigh dog behind him, made him one of the best and fleetest of the train.
Supposing it were not Sunday, here goes," was the saucy challenge of this young clerk, who thought he had the fleetest train in the whole district.
At the firing of a gun there was a wild rush, and the side that had the fleetest runners thus secured the first kick.
But vain were all his efforts, for behind him was an Indian who, although now well up in years, was one of the fleetest runners in the tribe.
Inspired with new strength by his sudden release, and the returning hope of life, he flew with a winged speed, so as entirely to distance the fleetest of his eager pursuers.
Some of the fleetest started off in hot but vain pursuit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleetest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
