Each nation chose their swiftest runners, then the flyers went which and tucker for a ways, but the Senecas finally came out glorious.
With swiftest flight and truest aim Upon the giant hosts they came.
Let couriers to thy father speed On horses of the swiftest breed, And, by the mandate of the king, Thy Bharat to his presence bring.
The mighty demon through the shade Beheld me come with one to aid: Then shrinking from unequal fight, He turned his back in swiftest flight.
Far, on the Milky Ocean’s shore, Still grow those herbs in boundless store; Let swiftest Vánars thither speed And bring them for our utmost need.
Swift as Suparṇa’s(582) swiftest flight In awful strength they rushed to fight: So might the sun and moon on high Encountering battle in the sky.
Fierce goblins, rovers of the night Who cleft the clouds with swiftest flight In countless hosts that chariot drew, With earrings clashing as they flew.
Sugríva raised four urns of gold, The water for the rite to hold, And bade four swiftest Vánars flee And fill them from each distant sea.
The breaking of the bow I knew From startled Gods conversing, through The airy regions, of thy deed, And hither came with swiftest speed.
Which with the straightest and the swiftest flight?
All the armies of all the world could bring human progress to no more than a temporary halt, and not even the swiftest dalul could hope to keep pace with the breathtaking march of civilization as America knew it.
Since there was only one man to kill, and every Druse burned to kill him, they came in wild disorder, with those on the swiftest camels leading.
With less than a two-hundred-yard lead at the beginning of the race, Ben Akbar had doubled that distance between himself and the three swiftest pursuers.
With his swiftest sailors he speedily overhauled their laggards, and ordering his vanguard to let these alone, he followed hard on those ahead.
You should set an example to the rest of the allies, and show us how to inflict the sharpest and swiftest injury on our enemy, whilst we await the return from Lacedaemon of my envoys with the necessary funds.
Then Lysander ordered the swiftest of his ships to follow the Athenians, and as soon as the crews had disembarked, to watch what they did, sail back, and report to him.
And Gaston preparing to ride to Le Havre in order to send theswiftest ship to do its deed of treachery!
Let, then, three of my swiftest warriors speed away to the heads of the eight tribes, and tell them to come hither before the west is dark to-morrow, bringing with them their wisest men.
And this was not so bad a bargain for Thor, for Thialfi was the swiftest of foot of any man in the whole world.
Thialfi answered that of all men he was the swiftest runner, and that he was not afraid to race with any one whom the king might select.
Thus he spoke, nor did Apollo disobey his sire, but he descended from the Idæan mountains like unto a swift hawk the dove-destroyer, the swiftest of birds.
But the son of Peleus leaped back as far as is the cast of a spear, having the impetuosity of a dark eagle, a hunter, which is at once the strongest and the swiftest of birds.
They left all of our principal ports, many of the swiftest and most effective going from Baltimore, but twenty-six were fitted out in New York alone in the summer of 1812.
These birds certainly are the swiftest of foot of any water-birds which I know, of their size.
And seated in crowds upon the two widest and swiftest platforms, or stepping from one to another down the steps, or swarming over the central space, was an innumerable and wonderfully diversified multitude of people.
From this nearest and swiftest platform a series of others descended to the centre of the space.
They went up the stepped platforms to the swiftest one, and there Asano accosted a labourer.
The Sucking-fish beneath, with secret chains, Clung to the keel, the swiftest ship detains.
The swiftest greyhound cannot overtake it; and indeed an Arab on his horse cannot hope to capture an ostrich without having recourse to stratagem.
It is said to be "the swiftest of all four-footed creatures, that it is very treacherous and cruel to men.
The swiftest of all other living creatures whatsoever, and not of sea fish only, is the dolphin; quicker than any fowle, swifter than the arrow shot from a bow.
The dolphin is an elegant and swift swimmer, and capable of overtaking the swiftest of the finny tribe.
And the swiftest keel that was ever launched shot ahead of the British fleet, And amidst a thundering shower of shot with stun'-sails hoisting away, Down the North Channel Paul Jones did steer just at the break of day.
Its boon influence From the fair nest of Leda rapt me forth, And wafted on into the swiftest heav'n.
In a moment of revery, while looking through the window at the falling snow, the words came to her: If you cannot on the ocean Sail among the swiftest fleet.
XXIX ‘O saddle to me the black, the black, O saddle to me the brown, O saddle to me the swiftest steed That e’er rade frae the town.
XXVI ‘O saddle me the black, the black, Or saddle me the brown; O saddle me the swiftest steed That ever rade frae a town!
XXIV ‘Go saddle to me the black, the black, Go saddle to me the brown, Go saddle to me the swiftest steed That e’er rid to Wallington!
Let, then, three of my swiftest warriors speed away to the heads of the eight tribes, telling them to come hither before the west is dark to-morrow, bringing with them their wisest men.
But, since he is become thy guest, afford My friend a chariot, and a son of thine Who shall direct his way, nor let him want Of all thy steeds the swiftest and the best.
You said they were the swiftest animals on the plains, and yet you say that the coyotes catch them.
Yes, those are antelope, the swiftest animal on the plains.
Take four of the Prince's swiftest horses with you," cried Anna, as she wrote out the pardon with her own hand and made her husband sign and seal it.
Footnote 9: 'Honour my son for me, for the swiftest doom of all is his.
Still, he might do it, he whose feet were the swiftest in the land, except those of Umslopogaas.
Yet I might try," said Umslopogaas, smiling, for of all lads among the Zulus he was the swiftest of foot.
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