Use sped in a sentence
Sentences ending with sped
- Consider the three years sped. [5]
- The camp-fires of two armies spotted the shores of the wide river, and the ships lay like wild fowl in convoys above the town from where the arrow of fate should be sped. [11]
- He had the Tasmanian's spirit and endurance, and a notable share of military science besides; and so he rose against the oppressor, did this gallant "fanatic," and started a war that was not brought to a definite end until more than a generation had sped. [5]
- Hath the night sped? [10]
- The friends I left that parting day, How changed, as time has sped! [7]
- Ah how happy has the matter sped! [5]
- I hanged them every one before an hour had sped. [5]
- Why, if I could believe that in thirty years from now the English domination would be broken and the French monarch's head find itself hooped with a real crown of sovereignty--" "Both will have happened before two years are sped. [5]
- Still Shon sped. [11]
Short sentences using sped
- Hours sped or dragged. [13]
More example sentences with the word sped in them
- For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
- A constant marvel with us, as we sped along the bases of the steep mountains on this journey, was, not that avalanches occur, but that they are not occurring all the time. [5]
- In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
- A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
- The next day was not so genial; and we sped on, following our original intention of seeking the summer in winter. [4]
- His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
- Once twice--thrice she was hit, but she sped on. [11]
- Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
- Together they sped towards the mine, little groups running beside them, muttering those dark sayings which, either as curses or laments, are painful comments on the relations of life on the lower levels with life on the higher plateaux. [11]
- Mrs. McWilliams sped to the nursery to see how things were going on there. [5]
- Well, we sped through the wild night, the bitter storm raged on, a cheerless misery stole over me, my heart went down, down, down! [5]
- As I sped through the streets, I could not help but think of how he had kissed her hand as he fell, and I knew by this act, at such a time, that in very truth he loved her after his fashion. [11]
- But we dragged through and sped away toward the setting sun. [5]
- It seemed hardly three minutes after Jasmine's entrance when she appeared in the doorway again, and, after a hasty glance up and down the street, sped away as swiftly as she could, and, at the corner, turned up sharply towards the Strand. [11]
- Up Fifth Avenue they sped, past meaningless houses, to the Park. [9]
- In the morning the three comrades started on their journey again; but no one sped them on their way or watched them as they went. [11]
- I sped through the streets on the errand, spied a Creole company waiting in reserve, and near them, behind a warehouse, a knot of backwoodsmen, French, and Indians, lighted up by a smoking torch. [9]
- She sped along the prairie road as fast as she could, once or twice stopping to call aloud. [11]
- Away around through the curtaining forest I sped, as if on wings, none knowing what was become of me, none suspecting my design. [5]
- In her absence the coppersmith Pernhart had wooed her mother in good earnest, and the eldest daughter not being on the spot, had sped so well that the widow had yielded. [10]
- A sensitive chill swept all over him, making his flesh creep, and a flush sped over his face from chin to brow. [11]
- Down, down he sped, till he reached the Welshman's. [5]
- The minutes still sped, and still she talked. [5]
- As the fisherman sped shrieking and beckoning to the villagers, David, Lacey, and Mahommed fought for their lives in the swift current, swimming at an angle upstream towards the shore; for, as Mahommed warned them, there were rocks below. [11]
- Thus the hours sped between our homecoming from the chase and the evening meal, and we presently met all our guests in the refectory. [10]
- Here sped and shrieked the sculptor that carved out the wonderful caves in the cliffs. [13]
- Dreading lest thou shouldst be this victim, my father, I sped hither. [10]
- Seeing how exhausted she was, he made her ride a few miles upon his sledge; then she sped on ahead again till she came to the borders of Askatoon. [11]
- In a moment she was ready, and the cart sped away into the night across the veld. [11]
- Like a ghost she sped the quick way to Askatoon. [11]
- With another cry she sped on, and did not pause till she reached the house. [11]
- In the silence one only heard the swish of water against the 'Fulvia's' side, as we sped on towards Aden. [11]
- As they sped on, lurching, jumping, piercing a broken wall of wave and spray like a torpedo, shooting an almost sheer fall, she came to rely on a sense of intuition rather than memory, for night had transformed the waters. [11]
- The canoe sped on, but presently it swung round and lay athwart the current, dipping and rolling. [11]
- At the foot of Breed's Hill in Charlestown an American had been born into the world, by the might of whose genius that fateful name was sped to the uttermost parts of the nation. [9]
- The hours sped now; the afternoon waned. [13]
- He sped faster now, and presently came to two great doors, on which he knocked thrice. [11]
- Nor did a mouthful pass his lips until I had sped away with a steaming portion to find the Colonel. [9]
- It was wrested, in its container, from its storehouse in the clouds, by the resistless might of the flying planet, and hurled at our feet as she sped by. [5]
- From that moment, in good order and in good weather, the Ariadne sped on her way westward and southward. [11]
- It struck between his eyes with a thud, and he staggered back, blind, bleeding and faint, as she threw open the door and sped away in the darkness. [11]
- The high hedge hid him from the house, now; and so, under the impulse of a deadly fright, he let out all his forces and sped toward a wood in the distance. [5]
- With mighty strokes he sped towards it, reached it, grasped it, then his trembling hands felt her body and lifted her up. [10]
- He waved his hand towards his old prison, and sped away. [11]
- They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and they halted in silence. [2]
- Not far away from the house, on the way to Portage la Drome, but a little distance from the road, was a crevasse, and towards this she sped, for once before an accident had happened there. [11]
- The canoe quivered for an instant at the last cataract, then responding to Memory and Will, sped through the hidden chasm, tossed by spray and water, and swept into the swift current of smooth water below. [11]
- All that had ever been good and worthy in him had waxed and sped well at Venice, that high school of the merchant class; but where was the smiling mirthfulness which had marked him as a youth? [10]
- Departing on this embassy, I sped out of the gates of the fort. [9]
- Then Dingley had dropped from her bedroom window, had joined her under the trees, and they had sped away, while the man's hunters, who had come suddenly, and before Jenny could get him away into the woods, were carousing inside. [11]
- As they sped down the flume of the deep, irresistible current, and were launched into the trouble of rocks and water, Jenny realised how great their peril was, and how different the track of the waters looked at nighttime from daytime. [11]
- Thence I sped, dodging this group and that, until I came to the long log house that was called the garrison. [9]
- Finally the private dispatch announcing the result of the lawsuit sped over the wires, and as soon as he heard it he telegraphed his friend in San Francisco: "Am tired waiting. [5]
- I waded the creek and sped to Clark. [9]
- But he sped but ill, dwelling alone, inasmuch as he would forget to eat and drink and mislay or lose his hardly won wage. [10]
- And, straight as bolt from crossbow sped, Our ship swept on, with shoaling lead, Before the fearful gale! [5]
- The gold-pan was beneath him, and down the glacier he was whirled-whirled, for Shon had thrust his heels in the snow and ice, and the gold-pan performed a series of circles as it sped down the incline. [11]
- Then I sped away in a guilty hurry, and even when I was a mile from the church I was still glancing back, every moment, to see if I was being pursued. [5]
- Few noticed us as we sped along down Palace Street and I could not conceive whither we were going, until, passing the Hotel Dieu, I saw in front the Intendance. [11]
- She forgot time as it sped, till at length Gorgo made her appearance. [10]
- Gathering her cloak around her Al'mah sped after them. [11]
- With a swift apology she sped away, after closing the door upon the visitor. [11]
- He sprang away and sped down the hill as fast as his legs could carry him. [5]
- My chest tightened, and I sped along the ranks to Harrod's company and caught Tom by the wrist. [9]
- As he sped along towards the town he asked himself why nobody suspected the traitor. [11]
- She sat behind a table put crosswise of a remote corner, and offered tea to people whom a niece of hers received provisionally or sped finally in the outer room. [8]
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