1 Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 2 In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.
3 In this manner many minutes flew by with the swiftness of thought; the rifles of the assailants speaking, at times, in rattling volleys, and at others in occasional, scattering shots.
4 His proposal was received with acclamations, and executed with the swiftness of thought.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 5 The rush and blows passed with the fury of a whirlwind, and the swiftness of lightning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 6 The more abject of the two victims continued motionless; but the other bounded from the place at the cry, with the activity and swiftness of a deer.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 7 Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 8 I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.
9 I sank to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood.
10 In a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
11 I rushed towards the window, and drawing a pistol from my bosom, fired; but he eluded me, leaped from his station, and running with the swiftness of lightning, plunged into the lake.
12 The lawyer, with a swiftness that could never have been expected of him, opened his hands, caught the moth, and resumed his former attitude.
13 The foremost clouds, lowering and black as soot-laden smoke, rushed with extraordinary swiftness over the sky.
14 He had heard of the swiftness of Ilagin's borzois, and in that beautiful bitch saw a rival to his own Milka.
15 Suddenly she sat up with unaccustomed swiftness, glanced vacantly around her, and seeing Natasha began to press her daughter's head with all her strength.