I am writing these final words in the lonely cabin, still starting at times and fancying I hear the quick nervous step of the dead man upon the deck above me.
With the quick dexterity of a seaman, he tied his spreadeagled hands and feet with a rope which was passed underneath, and gagged him securely with the long cravat which used to adorn the chin of the Governor of St. Kitt's.
He was not at all quick in the ways of the world; and all feminine rush was beyond him.
In a few quick words it was arranged that the Parson should call again at six o'clock, and share his old friend's simple meal.
By this time he was admitted to the freedom of every hedge and ditch in the parish, because he was too quick to be caught, and too young to be prosecuted.
By a quick turn he recovered balance; but the check had given him time to think, and spying a stubby cornel-bush, he came to a halt behind it, and looked through the branches cautiously.
Moreover he knew that he was very quick of foot, and full of nimble dodges; but these elderly men could not so skip away, even if their dignity allowed it.
The clergyman was very quick of foot; but the child with her long Tremlett legs kept easily in front of him all the way, with the cloud of her black hair blowing out, on the frosty air, to hurry him.
For this was a man of quicknatural parts, and gifted in many ways for his profession.
To his quickperception and medical knowledge it was clear that his father's strength was failing, gradually, but without recall.
She crooked her quickfingers together as she spoke, and tore them asunder with vehemence.
Before any body could start up to ask about it, a cavernous rumble rolled into a quick rattle; and then deep silence followed.
But her white lips, quick breath, and quivering eyelids, were not altogether consistent with that.
Van roused himself and looked up into his friend's face with one of his quick smiles.
Finally, Alfreton, who was a trifle too quick for the others, got him into his sleigh, and they swept out behind a splendid team into the frozen stillness of the prairie.
I fancy he can talk to you, but you had better be quick if you wish to ask him anything," he said.
He could also make a quick decision, and when the officer returned to say that supper was ready, he rose with a smile.
When he met her eyes some twenty minutes later, he dismissed the impression of subtlety, for their black depths were quick with an eager wonder and curiosity.
She always made a quick getaway, was never up in court, and died young.
Quick births of transmutation smote The fair to foul, the foul to fair; Purple nor ermine did he spare, Nor scorn the dusty coat.
Not where they seem their signals fly, Their voices while we listen die; We cannot keep, however fleet, The quick time of their winged feet.
Never blind to faults, he had a quick and sympathetic eye for any real excellence or evidence of reserved strength in the author under discussion.
Our age is tolerant of creed and dogma, broader in its sympathies, more keenly sensitive to temporal need, and, practically recognizing the brotherhood of the race, wherever a cry of suffering is heard its response is quick and generous.
Wit sparkled on her lips not less For quick and tremulous tenderness; And, following close her merriest glance, Dreamed through her eyes the heart's romance.
And she who taught him love not less From him she loved in turn Caught in her sweet unconsciousness What love is quick to learn.
The sabre smote above, Beneath, the lean shark lay, Waiting with wide and bloody jaw His quick and human prey.
Still in their fresh mounds lay the slain, But all the air was quickwith pain And gusty sighs and tearful rain.
The quick eye of Davis had detected in it a mode of evasion, for cargoes of captured slaves were to be confiscated and sold at public auction.
His quick and responsive nature--a nature that enemies might call simulative--caught and reflected the characteristics of that singular and highly rhetorical age.
When it approaches its victim its scream changes to a quick kik-kak-kak, resembling the barking of a dog, and gradually sinking until sufficiently near, it darts in a straight line with the rapidity of lightning upon its prey.
I saw the hand of the younger man close on the knife hilt at his belt, but was quick enough to avert the hot words burning his lips.
Onclean linens is quick wash and every journals is buy for readers.
If the bit is not on his bars with a gentle pressure all the time you are driving him, you are cut off from any quick connection with him.
Later in the day I saw a quick drill, trot and gallop, of Troop K, Eighth Cavalry, under Lieutenant George Williams.
A retired polo pony, or some quick but steady animal of that type, is an admirable successor to the Shetland for a child's riding.
Some day, in a crowded street or in the park, when a cut of the whip is imperatively necessary and a quick return of the thong to its place as necessary, you will not regret a moment of the time spent in this way.
By thus looping your rein the left hand is kept steadily in its place, and the right hand is entirely free to be used in case the other horse is too quick or too sluggish.
In these days, thanks to the quick eye of the camera, there is no action which the horse is capable of making that may not be clearly shown in every phase.
If you are not ready for him before he gets going, no mortal is quick enough to catch him afterwards.
Swing the point of the stick from left to right with a slight downward movement, then make a quick half circle from left to right and upward, and your thong will curl around your stick three or four times and hold there.
Hrapp springs on his feet as quick as he can, and caught up his axe.
Take it away to the water, or burn it up as quick as you can.
Skarphedinn gave the shield such a quick twist, that Sigmund let go his sword.
This feat was done with such a quick sleight that no one could get a blow at him; he glided away from them at once at full speed.
So quick and shifty in his manliness that I would rather have his following than that of ten other men; but yet the man is unlucky-looking.
Hrut got out of the way of the stroke by a quick turn, and at the same time struck the back of the axe so smartly with a side-long blow of his left hand, that it flew out of Thiostolf's grasp.
Brynjolf gave him a stroke on the head with his axe, and he turned so quick round that Brynjolf loosed his hold of the axe, and Atli grasped the spear, and hurled it after him.
Why was I so quick to jump to conclusions, might I not have known I could have trusted him?
I have a wicked temper, and a quick tongue; were I not to speak out what I think, why I should choke to death.
Miss Adeline is quick to take offence when one of her old friends are being spoken lightly of.
He saw his danger, and quick as thought he rolled over, away from the bull.
The fellow threw a quick glance around the room, but did not retreat from his place in the doorway.
But the action was too quick for the old man, and he sat still until I had him covered, when I had sent a couple of balls after the jock to make him hit up the pace a bit.
I'm afraid that pony of yours isn't quick enough to get out of the way if these dogies should take it into their heads to act ugly.
Almost instantly Eveley brushed away the wave of sentiment and gave her quick bright laugh.
She would be glad to assist in the development of quick and kind-eyed Angelo at the office, or the courteous Jap in the tea garden, but for a baseball club she had no talent.
Almost immediately there came a quick creaking of the rustic stairs and a light tap on Eveley's window.
The way Lem does," came the quick retort, and Miriam laughed, suddenly and lightly.
She was indeed very pretty, with warm shining eyes, and a quick pleasant voice.
And then as Eveley turned, she heard quick running steps in the pathway under the swinging bridge that spanned the canyon lower down.
He is dear," cried Mrs. Severs, the quick color surging her face.
Quick tears leaped to Marie's dark eyes, and she placed her head softly against Eveley's shoulder, though she did not speak.
They had come up double quick from Savannah, and as they were regarded as veterans, the greatest confidence was soon manifest as to the successful termination of the battle.
Just at daybreak the rebel advance struck the pickets of the Union lines, and several musket shots rang out with great distinctness, and in quick succession, it being the first rebel shot that the boys had ever heard.
Marshall, with about 400 men, made a double-quick charge upon the Sioux and succeeded in utterly routing them.
But in pouncing he gave Thresk a glimpse into the real man that he was, a glimpse which the barrister was quick to appreciate.
I have this to say," she answered in a low quick voice.
She gave him one quick look and said: "That is one of the things she has never told me and I didn't meet her until after she had married him.
Dick expressed no anxiety for the quick advent of that day.
Thresk's experience had made him quick to notice details and slow to infer from them.
Because I shouldn't have known," he said in a quick whisper.
I don't know," answered Stella, still in thequick peremptory tone of one who will not be argued with.
I think you can be quickly offended, and quick to forgive--if you understand the offence to be only a mistake.
But Dick was quick enough to strike the limbing aside, and grasp it with both hands, when a struggle for its possession took place.
To bring his rifle to the present was the work of an instant; and as he did so a quick voice exclaimed,--"Who is there?
But Ali was already in full career; as light and active of foot as a deer, he made a quick rush and a leap, and landed in safety quite a yard beyond the young officers.
Private Gray was a man of quick decision, and his mind was made up at once.
His guards were so watchful that his slightest movements drew two or three pairs of eyes upon him, and he knew of old how quickthey were of hearing.
Before they could reach the residency their pulses began to throb, for there were the sharp, quick reports of a revolver, fired six times in succession.
See if you can get a bit of mint to Bridget's, and be quick back.
Realizing that the muffler would make a fairly good substitute, he used it with such effect that the startled pony broke into a quick gallop, and the ladies and Ruthie were jerked backwards in their seats.
On Monday morning when he was running along the quay from school, his quickeye saw a halfpenny lying in the dust near some drying tackle.
The afternoon had not proceeded on the lines laid down for it in his plans, but if they were quickthere was still time for the drawing-room before dinner.
Chesterton, however, hadn't so much been quick as tactful, managing, and prudent.
You'd better be quick then,' he said, looking at his watch.
The plate tilted up; the bread and butter slid off; and only by a practisedquick movement did she stop the plate from following the bread and butter and smashing itself on the floor.
I hoped you had enjoyed yourself," said Miss Briskett, stiffly, but with an underlying disappointment in her tone, which Cornelia was quick to recognise.
A tender of dumb animals, he was quick to understand the expression on the girl's face, and to know that she had been wrongfully accused.
Madame asked Cornelia in a whispered aside, but that young lady was quick to veto a retirement which would be so detrimental to the progress of the "cure" which she had at heart.
She shrugged expressively, and Elma smiled with quick understanding.
The quick pucker of lips and brows were almost startlingly eloquent of pain.
Cornelia was quick to note; storing up the fact, to produce next time she herself was accused of murdering the English language!
An involuntary and quite impersonal admiration was followed by quick repentance.
She was conscious of a quick thud-thud at the left side of the thickly-boned bodice, and realised with surprise that it came from that almost forgotten organ, her heart.
She noted the quick glance around, and wondered if he felt it compromising to sit with her alone, even in the publicity of a hotel lounge.
Elma began as usual to wait upon her guests, but Geoffrey took the plates out of her hand with an air of gentle authority, which the elder ladies were quick to note.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
