Use rapidly in a sentence
Sentences starting with rapidly
- Rapidly and timidly raising his fingers to his forehead by way of greeting, he asked Pierre whether the soldier Platoche to whom he had given a shirt to sew was in that shed. [2]
- Rapidly he took off the saddle and bridle. [13]
- Rapidly nearing this heavenly battlement, an immense niche was disclosed in its solid face. [4]
- Rapidly leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, young face to look back. [2]
Sentences ending with rapidly
- Wages and money were both better in Philadelphia, but the fund for his mother's trip to Kentucky apparently did not grow very rapidly. [5]
- The carters had used the lash stoutly, yet it had been no easy matter to advance rapidly. [10]
- The boats had turned the stake, and were coming in rapidly. [6]
- He was glad to have come to some conclusion, at any rate provisionally, with regard to these matters, for six days had slipped away since the works had been begun in the palace of Lochias, and Hadrian's arrival was nearing rapidly. [10]
- Mr. Watling put the tips of his fingers together, and I became aware that he was not offended, that he was thinking rapidly. [9]
- As soon as the 'Susie' reached Troy, she was turned over to General York, and placed at his disposition to carry out the work of relief more rapidly. [5]
- We were keeping the middle of the great river, as safest from detection, and when the tide was with us we could thus move more rapidly. [11]
- The scene of the festivities emptied rapidly. [10]
- The discussion was started, and spread rapidly. [7]
- This detracted to some extent from the popularity which they would have attained had the different members followed one another rapidly. [4]
Short sentences using rapidly
- She ran rapidly toward him. [2]
- Then he walked rapidly westward. [9]
- I see it rapidly approaching. [7]
- He walked rapidly. [4]
- She sank rapidly. [14]
Sentences containing rapidly two or more times
- She rapidly advanced in esteem, in good report, and in usefulness, and Abelard as rapidly lost ground. [5]
More example sentences with the word rapidly in them
- Her name spoken within the hall startled Virginia from her reverie, and she began to walk rapidly down the winding drive. [9]
- Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
- Breathing rapidly and with a heightened color, Melissa at last entered the room of Seleukus's wife. [10]
- The mill owner, with a glance at the boss, did nothing of the kind, but immediately began to talk rapidly to Mr. Merrill. [9]
- I hope you will write often; and as you write more rapidly than I do, don't make your letters so short as mine. [7]
- Even the jealousy which had clouded the happiness of her love like a fleeting, rapidly changing shadow, she believed she had now renounced forever. [10]
- If the patient were brought into a warm room, heat would be applied very rapidly, were not something interposed to prevent this, and allow its gradual admission. [3]
- The Maria's mainsail was up, and the jib was being hoisted, and her head was rapidly falling off to the wind. [9]
- But now Joan was rowing rapidly towards him, and presently was alongside. [11]
- That wild Lamperi was really impertinent to-night, and the abbe said things--things--" The old lady's large eyes were sparkling vinously, and her fan waved rapidly to and fro to cool the flush on her cheeks. [10]
- Her healthy constitution was rapidly rallying. [10]
- Just as he was leaving in the early morning a horseman rode rapidly past, and called out to the smith, who was standing in front of the shop: "The battle is lost. [10]
- At first it was distant; but it rapidly approached, tearing through the night and apparently through the tree-tops, like the harsh cry of a web-footed bird with a snarl in it; in fact, as I said, a squawk. [4]
- And as he walked rapidly across Burton Street he realized with a pang how much his heart had been set on Kate Marcy's redemption. [9]
- I began to walk, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly until I had gained a breathless pace; in ten minutes I was in West Street, standing in front of the Templar's Hall where the meeting of the Citizens Union west in progress. [9]
- She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
- Now they were voices of warning and taunting; and instead of going rapidly the train seemed to crawl at a snail's pace. [5]
- Yet her deep voice had gained a new, strange tone as, at first rapidly and softly, then in louder and firmer accents, she continued: "So I attained my eighteenth year and was no longer satisfied to dwell in Succoth. [10]
- Many of these Victoria parried, and she came rapidly to the conclusion that Mr. Arthur Rangely was a more astute person than--to a casual observer he would seem. [9]
- She dropped her veil, and for a long space was silent while they rapidly threaded the traffic, and at length turned into upper Fifth Avenue, skirting the Park. [9]
- The storm had vanished as rapidly as it had come up and it was day. [10]
- Slow to make up his mind in some things, as every eligible man must be, he was now coming rapidly to the notion that he might eventually decide upon Victoria as the most fitting mate for one in his position. [9]
- The Agricultural Department, under the supervision of its present energetic and faithful head, is rapidly commending itself to the great and vital interest it was created to advance. [7]
- Five months and two weeks ago McFarland asked John Morgan the time of day, and turned and walked rapidly away without waiting for an answer. [5]
- Her assistant hastily turned with a fork the little cakes, browning rapidly in the hollows of the iron, and when baked, laid them neatly on small plates. [10]
- And Rosalie, who trusted him-- this new element rapidly grew dominant in his thoughts-to be the common criminal in her eyes! [11]
- The neighbourhood they traversed was characteristic of our rapidly expanding American cities. [9]
- These three groups traveling together--the cavalry stores, the convoy of prisoners, and Junot's baggage train--still constituted a separate and united whole, though each of the groups was rapidly melting away. [2]
- And Puss, whose tongue was loosed again, talked rapidly of entertainments to which Stephen either had not been invited, or from which he had stayed away. [9]
- It came close to us, and then turned, and as rapidly as it came fled away through the forest, and we lost the unearthly noise far up the mountain-slope. [4]
- Thus capital came to the assistance of Mr. Jason, a fund was raised, and I was given carte blanche to defend the miserable city auditor and purchasing agent, both of whom elicited my sympathy; for they were stout men, and rapidly losing weight. [9]
- When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat. [2]
- I have written to my poor mother," said the smiling Mademoiselle Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r's. [2]
- In his letter to me of March 12, 1867, just cited, Mr. Motley writes:-- "My two concluding volumes of the United Netherlands are passing rapidly through the press. [6]
- It was clear to him that unless a miracle happened he would see his beloved Chicago no more; for the stream behind them was rapidly widening. [11]
- To get money to do things, no matter how,--or little matter how; to be in the swim, and that swim all too rapidly washing out the real people--that was the almost universal ambition. [11]
- The Emperor began to breathe heavily and rapidly, his lower lip trembled, and tears instantly appeared in his fine blue eyes. [2]
- She had gone through strange nervous trials and spiritual experiences which had matured her more rapidly than years of common life would have done. [6]
- Her heart was throbbing with the looms, and yet she stood motionless, until he turned and came rapidly down the slope of the arch and stopped in front of her. [9]
- Presently, however, her thoughts were distracted by the sight of something moving rapidly across her line of vision. [9]
- Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
- The miscreants of the Union will be batted in the snout if they ever dare pollute this rapidly rising city with their loathsome presence. [5]
- So rapidly had the summer gone and winter come again? [5]
- Ascertain from statistics the small proportion of the region which has yet been brought into cultivation, and also the large and rapidly increasing amount of products, and we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented. [7]
- Whatever may be the result of this ephemeral contest between Judge Douglas and myself, I see the day rapidly approaching when his pill of sectionalism, which he has been thrusting down the throats of Republicans for years past, will be crowded down his own throat. [7]
- At this time the population of the Territory was about twelve or fifteen thousand, and rapidly increasing. [5]
- It is in the nature of large fortunes to diminish rapidly, when subdivided and distributed. [6]
- But only for the moment; in a trice he had caught the time again and swept Miss Trevor rapidly down the room and out of sight. [9]
- They spun on the left foot, and kept themselves going by passing the right rapidly before it and digging it against the waxed floor. [5]
- In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, at first irregularly at varying intervals--trata... tat--and then more and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream began. [2]
- In spite of the fact that they drove Joshua's trotter to lunch--much too rapidly in the heat of the day, they were late. [9]
- And rapidly opening the door he went resolutely out onto the balcony. [2]
- We struck in the direction of the sound, and we were rapidly closing in upon him. [7]
- Passing rapidly through the corridors, I told a servant of the household what had occurred, bade him send for Bigot, and then made for my own safety. [11]
- She rapidly drew the conclusion that: he had killed it, and had thrown it down here, and that he could not be far off. [10]
- I have told the bishop so, but he is failing so rapidly from old age that I might as well not have wasted my breath. [9]
- His conduct in the Bacon business shows that he will develop rapidly into a manly man as soon as he is cast loose from your apron strings. [5]
- He had entered that period which marks the decline of men who have ceased growing in knowledge and strength: from forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. [6]
- But Cassian, confident that his master's indignation would soon change to approval and praise, rapidly began to relate what had occurred outside the little castle at Prebrunn when the festival under the lindens was over. [10]
- The Cossacks saw that his arms and legs jerked rapidly though his head was quite motionless. [2]
- Lettuce, like most talkers, is, however, apt to run rapidly to seed. [4]
- He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to questions put to him. [2]
- The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. [2]
- When both had taken leave, Henrica paced rapidly to and fro, passionately striking her clenched fist in the palm of her other hand. [10]
- Changes from State systems to the national system are rapidly taking place, and it is hoped that very soon there will be in the United States no banks of issue not authorized by Congress and no bank-note circulation not secured by the Government. [7]
- I wanted to surprise Pa," she continued rapidly, to head off the young gentleman's expostulations. [9]
- It was the subject of comment and conversation everywhere and passed rapidly through several editions. [4]
- When Venters rapidly strode toward the Masked Rider not even the cold nausea that gripped him could wholly banish curiosity. [13]
- Emerging from the street, she began to walk rapidly, the change from inaction to exercise bringing a certain relief, starting the working of her mind, arousing in her a realization of the necessity of being prepared for the meeting. [9]
- Instead of coming straight towards me, he took a large circle, swimming rapidly, and gradually contracting his orbit. [4]
- If he is standing before Brunn..." And Prince Dolgorukov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother's plan of a flanking movement. [2]
- The more full, specific and even accurate that is, the more rapidly does the work containing it lose its value. [4]
- Winslow gave him some conserve, washed his mouth, scraped his tongue, which was in a horrid state, got down some drink, made him some broth, dosed him with an infusion of strawberry leaves and sassafras root, and had the satisfaction of seeing him rapidly recover. [3]
- The handsome young soldier who had brought the wood, setting his arms akimbo, began stamping his cold feet rapidly and deftly on the spot where he stood. [2]
- And not only so, but the increase of our population may be expected to continue for a long time after that period as rapidly as before, because our territory will not have become full. [7]
- Man has multiplied so rapidly, that he has necessarily been exposed to struggle for existence, and consequently to natural selection. [1]
- They got a small cannon in readiness, and without waiting for the going down of the sun, began firing rapidly, upon which the Rev. [6]
- The Nile begins slowly to rise early in June; between the 15th and 20th of July it suddenly swells rapidly, and in the first half of October, not, as was formerly supposed, at the end of September, the inundation reaches its highest level. [10]
- She took a sheet of paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. [2]
- For an instant she stood blankly holding the pen, and then she wrote rapidly, if a trifle unsteadily: "Mrs. Leffingwell and maid. [9]
- From the first she had been quick to note Mrs. Maturin's inflections, and the relics of a high-school manner were rapidly eliminated. [9]
- The spirit of seventy-six and the spirit of Nebraska are utter antagonisms; and the former is being rapidly displaced by the latter. [7]
- She had often seen how rapidly that chameleon could change color. [10]
- We could not say one, two, three, fast enough, but we could dot our notebooks with our pencil points almost rapidly enough to take down a sort of short-hand report of the result. [5]
- Next to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. [2]
- In the second sat Arsinoe, looking gaily about her, and so fresh and pretty that the Roman's easily-stirred pulses beat more rapidly. [10]
- One who has sailed the lakes well knows how rapidly they can be lashed to fury by a storm, and the wind was now spinning the tops of the waves into a blinding spray. [9]
- Then the voice said something more, Demyan replied, and the steps in the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. [2]
- A young maid-servant, running rapidly, came first to open the house and light the lamps. [10]
- He swept the room at a glance, and then strode rapidly toward the corner where I sat. [9]
- Turning to the right on Burton Street, she soon found herself walking rapidly westward through deserted streets lined by factories and warehouses, and silent in the Sabbath calm . [9]
- With an unexpected reverberation in his voice Pierre rapidly began: "No, monseigneur," he said, suddenly remembering that Davout was a duke. [2]
- The immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible. [7]
- A controversy in regard to it rapidly grew into almost unmanageable proportions. [7]
- For this additional reason I wish you to push forward your column as rapidly as possible. [7]
- Although she wrote rapidly, five minutes must have gone by before the note was finished and folded and sealed. [9]
- He walked in rapidly, bowing to right and left as if anxious to get the first moments of the reception over. [2]
- They also worked rapidly, and in April the story was completed. [5]
- He was thinking rapidly while Mr. Fletcher had been speaking; something like a revolution was taking place in his mind, and when he asked this, the suggestion took on a humorous aspect--a humorous view of anything had not occurred to him in months. [4]
- Then she walked rapidly westward until she came to the liver-coloured facade of the City Hall, opposite the Common. [9]
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