The swiftness of our onset took the Spaniards all aback.
Cease ye herefrom: let her enter a mortal's couch and see her son fall in war, who shall be as Ares in the might of his hands, and as the lightning in the swiftness of his feet.
Such peril advances, as a rule, with terrifying swiftness and suddenness; and if one be unaccustomed to danger, he is liable to be beaten down and overwhelmed by the quick and unexpected shock of the catastrophe.
Just before we sailed from Gizhiga in the Onward, eight of us had an escape from death in which the peril came with great swiftnessand suddenness, and was prolonged almost to the extreme limit of nervous endurance.
He marveled even more than the preceding night at the swiftness with which his strength was returning.
The swiftness of his movement had brought him no physical discomfort, and his blood danced with the thrill of the earth under his feet and the thought that his wound must be even more completely healed than he had supposed.
The picture shot to his brain with the swiftness of the lightning itself.
He had never seen such splendid, fighting eyes, nor the birdlike swiftness with which she turned and ran down the hall, calling him to follow her.
A Proa is used by the natives of the Ladrone Islands, and is remarkable for its swiftness and sailing close to the wind.
Coolness, hardness, audacity, these were the qualities needed in life as he knew it now; swiftness not sensitiveness, boldness not delicacy.
I surmounted it also, with the swiftness and simplicity for which the Quaker's methods of bank jumping had not prepared me, and two or three fields, traversed at the same steeplechase pace, brought us to a road and to an abrupt check.
My husband, the Dappled Horse with Golden Mane, will cruelly revenge himself upon you when he knows I am your prisoner; his strength and swiftness are so great you could not escape him.
Junak mounted his horse, spoke a few words to him, and the brave creature fled through space with the swiftness of an arrow.
It is the swiftness of the dove, and not its fancied gentleness that is spoken of.
Modern music, with its orchestral registration, its swiftness and staccato, would be a sacrilege on this key-board.
Despite his almost incredible swiftness of execution, Hals got closer to the surfaces of what is called "actual" life than any of the masters with the exception of the supreme Spaniard.
It had evidently been well organized, for it had taken shape with amazingswiftness and certainty.
McTavish intended surprising him by the swiftness of pursuit.
My glances, which roved with swiftness from one object to another, shortly lighted on a miniature portrait that hung near.
I turned towards him with the swiftness of lightning; but my speed was useless to my safety.
Poor little thing; this was how she had come back to her home; her heart broken, her wings broken, as it were; all her soaring and swiftness and energy gone.
Defenceless they are in one sense, but as a fact they are no worse off than the well-armed species, having either a protective colouring or a greater swiftness or cunning to assist them in escaping from their enemies.
And as he was planning what to do, he perceived on the summit of a great height, a man, half-naked, jumping with remarkable swiftness and agility from rock to rock.
The next instant he was in the clutches of another devil; and passing from hand to hand, he went the rounds of the crew with such swiftness that the poor superstitious Sancho did not know whether he was dead, dreaming, or alive.
The eyesight of these people is uncommonly acute; and their swiftness is such as to enable them to chase the wild hog with success.
An officer of his staff who was with him during that winter, and who afterwards added an eighth book to the Commentaries to complete the history of the Gallic proconsulate, has recorded the ease and swiftness with which the work was written.
With the swiftness of lighting Rocco pushed forward the iron screen, which locked itself automatically.
Other small incidents, too, impressed him as all part of this queer, soft town with its muffled, indirect life, for the way some of the people appeared and disappeared with extraordinary swiftness puzzled him exceedingly.
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