Our feet did not touch the floor; we hovered in the air in quicker and quicker circles, and this ineffably delightful enchantment lasted so very, very long.
If this goes on, the return journey will be quicker than I thought.
Meanwhile the time flew by--our precious time; but then we hoped that our kayaks would render us important assistance, and that we should get on all the quicker in them.
The sun moves quickly in these latitudes from the first day that he peers over the horizon in the south till he circles round the heavens all day and all night; but still quicker do his movements seem when he is on the downward path in autumn.
It stood still a moment, then slipped farther and farther down the drift, at first slowly, then quicker and quicker rolling over and over.
We soon reached plains, and over them we went quicker and quicker.
The water was icy cold; it was hard work swimming with clothes on; and the kayaks drifted farther and farther, often quicker than I could swim.
Something similar happened when we occasionally touched a drifting hummock that was just on the point of rolling over, owing to the quicker melting of the ice below the water-line.
Mr. Gordon grabbed the latter's walking stick and went up that tunnel a good deal quickerthan Bobby had come down it.
Get there quicker than you can by the way of Cliffdale.
Yet he did not cease speaking, but went on quicker and quicker, with heaving breast.
The girl set her goat at liberty, walked quickerthan formerly, and after a while reached the edge of the meadow.
Then, as they proceeded with a quicker pace and loud shouts, the soldiers of their own accord took to running, bearing down upon the tents of the Persians.
That superior here meant quicker is established by the reply of one of these witnesses: "Our fire was a great deal quicker than the enemy's.
It is almost as if he had said, 'Why, herein is a marvellous thing, that you should have a quicker scent for rebellion than I or Herod!
Perhaps, if he had not had a troubled conscience, he would have had a quicker faith.
The more finely and completely the soil is pulverized, the quicker the lawn may be secured, and the more permanent are the results.
Quicker results are secured, however, if border plants of petunias and some other things are dug up just before frost and placed in pots or boxes.
No vegetable seed will decay quicker than beans, and the delay caused by waiting for the soil to become warm and free from excessive moisture will be more than made up by the rapidity of growth when finally they are planted.
He mistrusts him, for men are quicker in reading each other than a woman blinded by skin-deep fascination.
They will drive a soul to perdition quicker than any in the English language.
Men, however, are not of iron; eyes and hands weary; the brain and the nerves feel strain; and it is of the essence of defence that it exhausts quicker than does offence.
But boys are quick to discern character--frequently quicker than men.
Roy's eyes, quick to sparkle in fun, quick to soften in sympathy, yet quicker to glitter with indignation at any exhibition of smallness or meanness, just now had a look in them other than was their wont.
They had come, silently, up the trail, only their footsteps and their quicker breathing breaking the awesome stillness.
I hev got the bolsum as 'll draw the burnin' out o' yur blood, quicker 'an flame ud scorch a feather.
Scarce quicker could be the transformation in a pantomime.
The perceptions of woman are quicker than those of man: the young lady within the carriole was the first to identify him.
Enchantment could scarce have produced a quicker transformation than occurred in the tableau formed in front of the jacale hut.
Mr. Greeley gets paper quicker than a hungry fisherman could skin an eel.
Fortunes can he made legitimately here quicker than in many other places, but the worker must have patience.
Fortunes are made quicker and lost more easily in New York than in any place in the world.
We shall make a better world thequicker if we try realism for a little.
It is like all the rest of him; he feels everything so much quicker than we do--he is so much more impressionable.
The slow-fly amorousness of the British working classes evidently does not suit the quicker blood of France.
Once or twice he thought he heard movements and whispered rustlings in the bushes, which made his heart beat rather quicker than its wont.
And one should bear in mind that the quicker one starts in that pursuit, the more likely is that boundary to be saved, especially as to gauge the decrease in the pace of the ball is a most difficult matter.
I tell you I have work to hold my own with him; he knows every trick and turn as well as I do, and is quicker with his lunge and riposte.
However, I came back quicker than I went, for I had had a bowl of milk and as much bread as I could eat.
Yes; and your pulse is beating quickerthan I can count.
Lincoln was the quicker to perceive when they came together that something had happened.
Burgen, a practitioner 35 years, 28 in Toledo, says: "I think beer kills quickerthan any other liquor.
I said: "Good riddance to bad rubbish, the quicker they get out the better.
But now the bugle notes became shriller and more exciting; the shots quicker and more steady, as emerging from the bush, the attacking column rushed forward to the attack.
There is no quicker or cheaper way than to go through France to Marseilles, and thence by steamer direct to Algiers.
The men of Jannati Shahr numbered more pistols, but the Legionaries had quicker firers.
But quicker than he, "Captain Alden" was at the Master's side.
Gertrude's footsteps grew quicker and quicker as she neared St. Olave's.
I hae said it," replied Mrs Hall, as the energy of her resolution passed into the moving power of the wheel, and the revolutions became quicker and quicker.
What though my face be pale, and my eyes heavy, and my pulse a little quicker than usual, am I to dee for a' that?
Fain would he have asked more--these were not to him more than sufficient; but pride interposed, and fear aided pride, and away he again sped even at a still quicker pace.
I wonder if I should get on any quicker with a change of treatment.
Dig it up again directly," he said, and Beth, much startled, dug it up quicker than she had buried it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quicker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
