Quick as Dupont's movement had been it was no swifter than that of the closely-hooded stranger.
Swifter and swifter the canoes cut through the water.
Or, if some swifter wing there be, That it would fly to me--to me!
Ah, little knowest thou how Love, Such as descendeth from Above, Swifterfar is than feet can go, Or any motion here below.
But as we advanced up the river the current was swifter and swifter and the ice conditions grew steadily worse.
There are other dogs that I am fond of--better dogs in some ways that either Nanook or Lingo, swifter certainly--but I think I shall never have two dogs again that have meant as much to me as these two.
There was no swifter runner than he, but the distance between them did not decrease.
Toward midnight when they reached some of the wider parts of the river they set the sail and went ahead at a swifter pace.
There is a swifter step on the lead-covered staircase, and a clerk appears, coming from the upper rooms.
But the swifter the horses the sweeter the fresh wind to fan the delicate cheek and drooping eyelid of indolent beauty.
He shall not seek by flight to escape us, for vengeance is ours, and swifter than a hawk that strikes its quarry shall we strike.
Aloft then he sprang, and flew swifter than an arrow from the bow of Diana.
In an instant the dawn was blotted out by a vast black shadow, and swifter than any great bear could strike, a scaly hand had struck one of the friends of Beowulf.
The word flew through the encampment swifter than light.
Long had been his stride, longer now; swift, swifter now.
How, save by Thy help, did our poor jaded steeds fly like eagles after their Arabs, and overtake those chargersswifter than the lightnings?
Now while the shore lights are dying, Now while with swifter stroke plying, Flit we across the dim deep; Let us in rapt delight lying Hear the mild wind gently hying Where th' sprites night watches keep!
A little made my breast fire, and my jealousy was swifter than the falling stars, which are Allah's bolts against the rebel efreets.
One, the taller and swifter of the two, was a few yards in advance of the other, and, as the stag turned full into his foaming jaws, sprang at its throat with a wild yell.
Not swifter sweep The winds those leaves which early frosts have nipp'd, And lightly to the boughs attach'd remain, Than scatter'd flew his limbs by furious hands.
All he can urge to stay her flight he tries; Yet still she flies him, swifter from her fear.
It would be quite useless, for instance, for a lion to chase a deer, because the deer is by far the swifter animal of the two.
But among these there are no wings of Heliconidæ, while those of the large showy Nymphalidæ, which have a much swifter flight, are often met with.
For spoils alone our swords are keen, and deadly spears are hurled While carnage, wrath, and swifter death fly broadcast through the world.
ASIA: Thou breathest on their nostrils, but my breath Would give themswifter speed.
And now the horsemen come--and all was done Swifter than I have spoken--I beheld Their red swords flash in the unrisen sun.
After a certain time, the point m will have moved downwards to m', but in consequence of the swifter movement of the parts at a distance from the sides, n will have moved in the same time to n'.
These are the only measurements which I can find in his large work that establish the swifter motion of the centre of the glacier; and in these cases the velocity of the centre is compared with that of one side only.
The swifter flow of the centre of the glacier tends of course incessantly to lengthen the loops of the bands, and to thrust the summits of the curves which they form more and more in advance of their lateral portions.
Now the eastern side of the Mer de Glace is observed on the whole to be much more fiercely torn than the western side, and this excessive crevassing has been referred to the swifter motion of the Glacier du Geant.
All the day long he toiled for his ducats, and at night he had to count them and to plan and meditate how he might find out a stillswifter kind of plough.
I do wander every where, Swifterthan the moonès sphere, And I serve the Fairy-queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.
She observed that the attendant eunuchs were deficient in this kind of strength, and had no doubt that, with her own light weight, she could drive the almost imponderable kaik swifter than any of them.
His glance of scorn was hardly swifter than his leap: for, with a bound, his arms were around the prince's body, while his weight dragged him from the saddle to the ground.
How you bound across the ocean, Unimpeded, free in motion, Swifter than with boat or wing!
Saw you from your chariot swinging, So that swifter downward springing Like an arrow you might go Straight into the deep abysses, As a sunbeam falls and kisses Roses in the morning glow.
But the young Bithynian was swifter than they and might consider himself perfectly safe when once he had succeeded in mixing with a festal procession.
Ten minutes after the commencement of the retreat all the Amazons had left the nest, and, being swifterthan their opponents, they were only pursued for about halfway back.
He now proceeded to raise and draw the glass nearer to him with great caution, and then with a swifter dart looked behind.
Or, gracious father, see me runne the race On a light footed horse, swifter then winde.
Were I the worthiest to advise your honour, You should pursue him with your spredding bandes Swifter in march then is the lightning flame, And take him tardy whilst his plots are tame.
And all the maiden went in me before him, Swifter than in a moon which looks against The morning, all the silver courage fails.
So Charles's heart lightened and Royal went steady As a water bound seaward set free from an eddy, As a water sucked downward to leap at a weir Sucked swifter and swifter till it shoot like a spear.
The Churchill narrowed and its current became swifter as they progressed.
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