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Example sentences for "greater speed"

  • And I grew bolder to my journeying, and made ever a greater speed of going; and it was like that I took presently a less heed for my safety, which was a wrong and foolish state.

  • They saw the woman trying to urge her horse to greater speed.

  • In fact, the Panther urged them to greater speed, careless of the sounds, and they kept in the water for a full two miles further.

  • But his direct course would run close to the left side of it, and once more he sought to urge Old Jack to greater speed.

  • Paulvitch licked his lips in anticipatory joy, and urged his tired legs to greater speed that he might not be too late to the ship's anchorage to carry out his designs.

  • But out of his native element the ape-man was too greatly handicapped to do more than excite the monster to greater speed as it dragged its prey swiftly through the water.

  • Rokoff urged them to greater speed, and from the quavering note in his voice Jane Clayton knew that he was weak from terror.

  • He saw the dusky figure ahead of him still going swiftly, but with his hand on the pistol he followed at greater speed.

  • He believed that the men would not pursue him into the open country, but he urged his horse to greater speed, and did not turn in his saddle for a quarter of an hour.

  • Every shell that the Southern guns sent among them urged them to greater speed.

  • Believing that they should soon learn something of the fate of their lost companion, they proceeded onward, with their voices encouraging the hound to greater speed.

  • They were not losing ground, however, and this inspired them to greater speed.

  • The dog was now urged forward at a greater speed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common usage; cutting tool; first company; for another; further resolved; greater depth; greater detail; greater distance; greater evil; greater extent; greater good; greater length; greater number; greater numbers; greater perfection; greater quantity; greater share; greater than; greater value; his face; latter part; musical composition; taken back; thus refers; western extremity; writing from