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Sentences starting with speed

Speed also says you must not fail to send us the New York Journal he wrote for some time since. [7]
Speed says he wrote you what Jo Smith said about you as he passed here. [7]
Speed and you, in which I most sincerely join her. [7]
Speed thee, brother--let her come to me! [5]
Speed ye, man! [5]

Sentences ending with speed

So dismount, Margery, with all speed. [10]
The other day when I was going through the room one of these shuttles flew off, as they sometimes do when the looms are running at high speed. [9]
Yet so great was his haste that, instead of making a circuit around their quarter, he dashed straight through it at his utmost speed. [10]
I guess I was born at slow speed. [5]
But if the war was to come, I must settle what was to be done at Gordon's Pride with all possible speed. [9]
Thus had I to make all speed. [10]
I am sorry to know that we shall soon have to quit the vessel and go ashore if she keeps up this speed. [5]
Address your letters to Dr. A. G. Henry, R. F, Barrett; A. Lincoln, E. D. Baker, J. F. Speed. [7]
He had stood there dripping barely fifteen minutes when loud shouts and yells were heard on the road from Pelusium by which he had come, and upon the flooded dike appeared a body of men rushing forward with marvellous speed. [10]
When Tom reached the little isolated frame schoolhouse, he strode in briskly, with the manner of one who had come with all honest speed. [5]

Short sentences using speed

But speed ye, speed ye! [5]
Speed. [7]

Sentences containing speed two or more times

Especially downhill, we made the most of it; if the horse was on a run, that was only an inducement to apply the lash; speed gave the promise of greater possible speed. [4]

More example sentences with the word speed in them

Why, Speed, if you did not love her although you might not wish her death, you would most certainly be resigned to it. [7]
As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last? [10]
So time passed with the speed of the wind. [10]
So they departed with speed, making notes about the gigantic web as they went. [5]
Opening the door with all speed, he beheld the expressive countenance of Mr Chuckster, between whom and himself a fraternal greeting ensued. [12]
I hope he will put all possible energy and speed into the effort. [7]
But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to absorb the entire commerce; and then keelboating died a permanent death. [5]
If it's daytime when you strike it, bulge right on, straight west from the upper part of the Florida coast, and in an hour and three quarters you'll hit the mouth of the Mississippi--at the speed that I'm going to send you. [5]
Now you see what kind of speed I was making. [5]
The speed they were going would easily bring her round away ahead of the steamer. [4]
Our guardian kept watch over my brothers' speed in learning. [10]
If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
But such failure, Venters decided, was owing to the speed with which they were traveling. [13]
Cold, then hot, Venters burst into frenzied speed to reach his guns. [13]
Such is the vehemence of these attacks, that the unfortunate subjects of them are often driven backwards for great distances at immense speed, on the well-known principle of the aeolipile. [6]
A moment or two later his limbs were at liberty, and his captors, each gripping him by an arm, were hurrying him with all speed through the forest. [5]
In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again. [2]
The perfection of travel is ten miles an hour, on top of a stagecoach; it is greater speed than forty by rail. [4]
She had a tolerable record for speed, and for other things so important that they were now and again considered by the Government at Quebec. [11]
And when he told us of what he hoped to gain at that place we could but account his judgment good, and wish him good speed and that he might come home from that famous Italian school a luminary of learning. [10]
They had been told that the Queen was expected that night, because it was possible that the strong north wind would bear her ship home with unexpected speed after the victory. [10]
It was wonderful to see with what fierce speed the tall sheet of flame traveled! [5]
I was slow to learn that tongue; but Ann's head was not less apt than my brother's, and he was eager and diligent to keep her good speed at the like mark with his own, as she was so quick to apprehend. [10]
Prithee, speed, for 'tis but a little time that I can bear it. [5]
From time to time he glanced backward, as a wise general in retreat calculating his chances and the power and speed of pursuers, and the moment for the last desperate burst. [13]
A thought darted through his brain with the speed of lightning, and without hesitation he drew the ring from the hand of his astonished daughter, whispering curtly, yet tenderly, in reply to her anxious cry, "What are you doing? [10]
These reflections darted through his brain with the speed of lightning, and still stirred his heart when he was ushered into the impluvium, where the magistrates were impatiently awaiting the owner of the house. [10]
This reflection flashed through her mind with the speed of lightning while she was listening to Althea's conversation with the sculptor. [10]
These arrangements perfected, they drove to the justice-room with all speed, followed by the notary and his two friends in another coach. [12]
On that day there happened to be talk, at dinner, about the speed of modern ships. [5]
Mr. Cluyme, at the top of his speed, was come opposite to the carriage when the lady occupant got out of it. [9]
Put in all the speed you can. [7]
Instinctively guarding against the shock--for they had been running together at full speed before they saw one another--Pierre put out his hands and seized the man (a French officer) by the shoulder with one hand and by the throat with the other. [2]
This haste and the king's strange behavior were quite incomprehensible to the young Achaemenidae; nevertheless they set out on their journey with all speed, fearing that something must be wrong. [10]
He now convulsed the idlers in the smoking-room with laughter, and soon deftly drew off the discussion to the speed of the vessel, arranging a sweep-stake immediately, upon the possibilities of the run. [11]
A favorite was the Garibaldi song, which invariably ended in a cheer and a tiger, and threw the singers into such a spurt of excitement that the oars forgot to keep time, and there was more splash than speed. [4]
The speed of the fastest steamer afloat is poor compared to his. [5]
There, coming down the cable with the speed of lightning, was the cage. [11]
Roused again by the baying pack, she leaped forward with better speed, though without that keen feeling of exhilarating flight that she had in the morning. [4]
No need of the as yet undreamed-of telegraph; the tale flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic speed. [5]
The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and that he was dangerously wounded. [2]
So, almost wishing that he had not passed it, though hardly knowing why, he hurried on again, making up by his increased speed for the few moments he had lost. [12]
The shaft horse swung steadily beneath the bow over its head, with no thought of slackening pace and ready to put on speed when required. [2]
At first he supposed he had encountered the rear-guard of the migrating Hebrews, and had urged his horse to greater speed. [10]
It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. [7]
But if you start a swift-footed dog after him, you will enjoy it ever so much--especially if it is a dog that has a good opinion of himself, and has been brought up to think he knows something about speed. [5]
Off, at hot speed, rode the leader of the Nevada men to join his command. [5]
I tell you, Speed, our forebodings (for which you and I are peculiar) are all the worst sort of nonsense. [7]
We know the speed she made. [5]
She slowed her speed perforce, but still fled industriously up the right bank of the stream. [4]
Put the utmost speed into it. [7]
With the same speed he returned, still by untrodden paths until he reached the country road that ended in the city street. [9]
He makes good speed for half-an-hour, but it is hard work for him; he is too slight for it. [5]
This is a speed eleven hundred times greater than that of the most rapid express trains. [4]
I mean no sort of offence when I say it, sir, but you really do not know anything whatever about speed. [5]
Though they murmur soft "Our Father," Angel wings to speed it on Past the bright wheels of the Pleiads, Have they thought of benison? [11]
Their speed was slow, however, because pitfalls were somewhat common, and had to be guarded against. [5]
A messenger from Slade rode at full speed to inform her of her husband's arrest. [5]
There he would sit alone, with his wine jar and cup, and he would drink the first and second and third in silence, to the good speed of Elsa, his late departed wife. [10]
And my instructions, sir, were to come to Annapolis with all reasonable speed with this double-sealed enclosure for Mr. Carvel: and to deliver it to him, and him only, the very moment I arrived. [9]
Sometime ago a ship hit it full speed in a fog--20 miles out of her course--140 lives lost; the captain committed suicide without waiting a moment. [5]
Yet, when still several miles from the mouth of the harbour at the Pharos, it was evident that the Rhodian helmsman in the island tavern had predicted truly; for the weather changed with unusual speed, and the wind now blew from the north. [10]
As I was setting forth at good speed, hand in hand with my new friend, she looked at the little maid's plain garb from top to toe, and not kindly. [10]
He had been seen riding full speed into the prairie towards the Kourmash Wood, and the starlit night had swallowed him. [11]
If they had seen him, it apparently made no difference in their speed or direction. [13]
It did not seem that a lightning express train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. [5]
In a few seconds these thoughts darted through his heated brain with the speed of lightning. [10]
There came a second of sheer terror, a hoarse challenge in French, and then I took to my heels and flew towards the fort at the top of my speed. [9]
Lohier escaped from Rouen and got out of France with all speed, and so saved his life. [5]
Marget and the rest of us hurried thither at our best speed, in a great state of rejoicing. [5]
He no sooner remembered this, than he hung up the cage with great precipitation, and hastily explaining the nature of his errand, went off at full speed to the appointed place. [12]
He recovered himself, reached the bell rope, "Damn you, I'll learn you," stepped to the door and called a couple of brakemen, and then, as the speed slackened; roared out, "Get off this train. [5]
A light shiver ran through his frame with the speed of lightning, and the Epicurean's maxim that fear and cold are companions darted through his brain. [10]
Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to. [2]
It seemed rather poor speed for a three-dollar watch, but I supposed that the climate was affecting it. [5]
The superintendent of police turned round at that moment with a scared look, said something to his coachman, and his horses increased their speed. [2]
With malicious speed Paulette told him how she had seen Rosalie Evanturel nailing the little cross on the church door of a certain night. [11]
Lord Berkeley sprang out of bed and moved with all possible speed toward the clothes-press in the darkness and the gathering smoke, but fell over a chair and lost his bearings. [5]
We cooled down our speed and tagged along after it, just to have company, though it warn't going our way. [5]
Is there no one to wish thee speed to the Ancient House? [11]
They would do one hundred words a minute --my talking speed on the platform. [5]
Then I ran on again up the creek, heedless of cover, stumbling over logs and trailing vines, when all at once a dozen bronze forms glided with the speed of deer across my path ahead. [9]
Then the rattling of the coach, the clatter of our six horses' hoofs, and the driver's crisp commands, awoke to a louder and stronger emphasis, and we went sweeping down on the station at our smartest speed. [5]
Otherwise, the game of poker is much what it is on land, and the constant consulting of charts and reckoning of speed evince the general desire to get somewhere--that is, to arrive at a harbor. [4]
As if aware of her danger, the wolf turned her eyes on Karay, tucked her tail yet further between her legs, and increased her speed. [2]
One bold turn of Fortune's wheel will bring him, who has stood at the bottom, up to the top with the speed of lightning. [10]
With the strength of despair she sprang up, ran after the mules, overtook them on a slight ascent which had lessened their speed, and seized the reins. [10]
Got it out of a book--means the more haste the less speed. [5]
Unmindful of all obstacles, however, he pressed forward without slackening his speed, and soon arrived within a few yards of the window. [12]
Nearer and nearer... now she was ahead of it; but the wolf turned its head to face her, and instead of putting on speed as she usually did Milka suddenly raised her tail and stiffened her forelegs. [2]
The ball is now rolling gloriously on, and none are so able as they to increase its speed and its bulk, to add to its momentum and its magnitude--even though unlearned in letters, for this task none are so well educated. [7]
But we did not slacken our speed, and gradually the leaping flames grew larger and redder until we were upon them. [9]
As we speed northward it will grow hotter very fast--but it isn't chilly, now. [5]
Still, we shall never push her to a dangerous speed, and we shall rigidly prohibit racing with other comets. [5]
As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance--for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water. [5]
There was not much time for reflection, and I set off at full speed for the doctor's house. [10]
This was too much speed for the money, and it troubled me. [5]
They hailed, but Mr. King, who was rowing his boat, did not slacken speed. [4]

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