RAPIDITY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless.
2 While this strange dialogue continued, I perceived the crowd rapidly increase.
3 As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid.
4 The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms.
5 I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
6 The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress.
7 It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.
8 We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
9 She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream.
10 His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
11 Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.
12 I continued to wind among the paths of the wood, until I came to its boundary, which was skirted by a deep and rapid river, into which many of the trees bent their branches, now budding with the fresh spring.
13 The wind, which had hitherto carried us along with amazing rapidity, sank at sunset to a light breeze; the soft air just ruffled the water and caused a pleasant motion among the trees as we approached the shore, from which it wafted the most delightful scent of flowers and hay.
14 My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.
15 A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.