QUICK TIME Being at a halt, to march forward in quick time: 1.
Being at a halt, or in march in quick time, to march in double time: 1.
His regiment had been in action all day, exhausted by thirst and fatigue, much reduced by the carnage of the morning engagement, and many in the ranks suffering from wounds, yet the noble fellows moved at double-quick time.
The Protestants will have to levant in double-quick time.
Unhindered by England, Ireland would evangelise the world, and that in double-quick time.
Just this--I shall get out of the country in double-quick time.
If at a halt, or if marching in quick time, the command =double time= precedes the command of execution.
Pace:= Thirty inches; the length of the full step in quick time.
If marching, the cadenced step in quick time is resumed, and rifles, if carried, are brought to the right shoulder.
Being at a halt, to march forward in quick time: 1.
At the command attention the pieces are brought to the right shoulder and the cadenced step in quick time is resumed.
The band, playing in quick time, passes in front of the line of officers to the left of the line and back to its post on the right, when it ceases playing.
Except in the review of a single battalion, the troops pass in review in quick time only.
Freeman, detail thirty of your men and let Lieutenant Holmes march them into Bantoc in quick time.
March to the right, and take that hill yonder in quick time, Lieutenant Prescott," directed Captain Freeman.
This order was obeyed in double-quick time, all hurrying over the breastworks, getting on the reverse side, into the ditch half filled with water, preferring the cold water to hot lead.
Whenever we got one fast in a trap, me and the dogs, we was allers good for him in double-quick time; but occasionally we got a little more than we bargained for.
We saw the kilted heroes march at quick time up that deadly incline as steadily as if on parade, and the infantry on their right (as far as we could see for the smoke) followed their example.
Quick Time is used in haste, joy, humour, also in anger, and in exciting scenes of any kind.
Why, I have heard my father say that the American marksmen, led on by a chap of the name of Washington, sent the English to the right-about in double-quick time.
Bagg says that he stopped short, as suddenly as if he had heard the word halt, when marching at double-quick time.
The length of the full step in "Quick Time" for a Scout is twenty inches, measured from heel to heel, and the cadence is at the rate of one hundred twenty steps per minute.
All steps and marchings and movements involving march are executed in "Quick Time" unless the squad (or company) be marching in "Double Time.
Quick Time Being at a halt, to march forward in quick time: 1 Forward, 2 March.
Marching in quick time, raising knees, and rising on toes of other foot.
Marching in column in quick time, mark time, marching in quick time and halting.
The command to stop all marching exercises is "Quick time--March.
Ordinarily when Madame found herself obliged to go out in the afternoons she got it over in double-quick time.
For all that he's a lieutenant in the army, Francois will chuck him out in double-quick time!
We fell in in two ranks, with our tin cups, in double-quick time.
We were marched down there again, in double-quick time, the rebels shouting and shooting and waving their hats like so many demons.
We marched to the left of that battery in double-quick time.
They was hove overboard in quick time, an' that was what 'Op was lyin' to for.
But I will say for you, Hinch, you've certainly got the hang of her steamin' gadgets in quick time.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quick time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
