His natural inclination to remain at his master's heel and his exceptional sagacity and quickness of perception will speedily develop him, in a sportsman's hands, into a first-rate dog to shoot over.
In order to obtain greater quickness of movement many of the Bulldogs were crossed with a terrier, although some fanciers relied on the pure breed.
There is something of Greek quickness and Greek intelligence left even now about the old Phocaean colony.
He possessed wonderful acuteness of understanding, quickness of perception, and readiness of reply.
His quickness of perception and self-command were also remarkable.
This quickness and accuracy of thought and action is one of the prominent characteristics of Stanley, and more than once saved his life and his expedition.
This foolhardy expedition was exactly like Gaston; but when I saw the quickness of his eye, and the alertness of his movements, I concluded he could take care of himself better than any of us supposed.
Count Saxe congratulated him warmly, reminding him of that other occasion when by his quickness he had passed himself off for Count Saxe, and so had earned for himself seven years of captivity, but had saved Count Saxe.
All his thrusts I managed to parry; but, somewhat with swordsmanship and more with wondrous quickness of foot, he likewise foiled mine.
I met his thrust with the parry which my father had well taught me years agone; and had my enemy not sprung aside with the quickness of a cat, my sword in return had pierced his neck.
I looked about me, dizzied with the quickness of that which had befallen; and beheld a sight for tears and groaning.
The Frenchman danced and dodged with a quickness that minded me, even then, of the beast he so resembled.
Now came Marvin, bonnet in hand, before Lord Mountjoy; and began to speak with a quickness and a shortness of breath that I had ne'er before noted.
While this creature is in a playful mood, she bounds about her cell with the quickness of thought, touching the four sides of it nearly at one and the same instant.
She possessed great quickness of eye; and apples, and other fruit, were often thrown at her with great rapidity, but she always caught them without an effort.
With almost supernatural force and quickness he sprung upon the forester, and seized him by the throat.
This worthy was an attorney from London, who had officiated as clerk of the court at the assizes at Lancaster, where his quickness had so much pleased Roger Nowell, that he sent for him to Read to manage this particular business.
But at his touch, with another cry, she sprang to her feet and, whirling with the flash-like quickness of a wild thing, vanished into the undergrowth that walled in the glade.
Our unfortunate friend, Kaneena, possessed a degree of judicious curiosity, and a quickness of conception, which was rarely met with amongst these people.
The young will not move, though one stands with the foot touching them, but when once handled and released they scamper off with all the quickness their long legs can give them.
It is interesting to note how Washington took it, for we see here with unusual clearness the readiness of grasp and quickness of thought which have been noted before, but which are not commonly attributed to him.
Timely information, presence of mind, and quickness alone enabled the young Frenchman to escape, narrowly but completely.
To grasp so surely the happy chance of wind and weather and make such a retreat as this was a feat of arms as great as most victories, and in it we see, perhaps as plainly as anywhere, the nerve and quickness of the man who conducted it.
Greene, with the boldness and quickness which showed him to be a soldier of a high order, now dropped the pursuit and turned back to fight the British in detachments and free the southern States.
It was a bold stroke to leave Clinton behind at the mouth of the Hudson, and only the quickness with which it was done, and the careful deception which had been practiced, made it possible.
With coolness and quickness he issued his orders, and succeeded in getting his army off, Putnam's division escaping most narrowly.
Then her hand with a desperate quickness rose to her face which was still turned from him, and she sprang to her feet and with a frightened cry disappeared into the darkness.
She had fancy, as we know, and she could put her fancy on paper with a quickness and sureness of stroke which had led M.
The boy evinced great hardihood of temper, and no inconsiderable quickness of intellect.
Long practice had given the Cheap Jack a quickness in detecting a possible purchaser which almost amounted to an extra sense, and he at once began to assail the Squire.
The proctor was right; but notwithstanding his quickness and sagacity, there was another individual in the room at that moment who recognized it sooner than he did.
Like the women of the southern provinces of Spain, they are remarkable for quickness and smartness of repartee, and in a wordy contest a Limeña is sure to come off triumphant.
It seems to me that this lad has shown a courage, a presence of mind, and a quickness of decision that would be an honour to older men.
But even in the midst of these pursuits he did not lose his quickness of military perception.
She had been so proud to be called "quick" all her little life, and now it appeared that this quickness was the brand of inferiority.
But when this small apparatus of shallow quickness was fetched away in the gig by Luke, and the study was once more quite lonely for Tom, he missed her grievously.
