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Sentences starting with swiftly

Swiftly he described what happened in the little room at the traitor's tavern, of the momentary reconciliation and the wine that he drank, drugged wine poured out but not drunk by Erris Boyne, and of his later unconsciousness. [11]
Swiftly he told them all. [11]
Swiftly but silently the man reached down and hauled Eliphalet to the sidewalk by the nape of the neck. [9]
Swiftly the young man told all he had seen, and described how he had run all the way--four miles--from Carillon, arriving before Fleda and her Indian escort. [11]
Swiftly Nahoum told him the whole truth--even to the picture of the brougham, and the rigid, upright figure passing through the night to Foorgat's palace, the gaunt Mizraim piloting the equipage of death. [11]
Swiftly she told her dreadful tale, how, after Achmet had murdered all of her except her body, she rose up to kill herself; but fainting, fell upon a burning brazier, and her hand thrust accidentally in the live coals felt no pain. [11]
Swiftly yet watchfully he made his way through the canyon to the oval and out to the cattle trail. [13]
Swiftly as the going and coming of a flash of lightning, the vision appeared and vanished, yet ere it had wholly disappeared she knew its meaning. [10]
Swiftly the two cavalcades approached each other, the desert ringing with the cries of the Bedouins, the Nubians, and the fellaheen. [11]
Swiftly and skilfully, as if aided by invisible hands, her dainty fingers opened curtain and window. [10]

Sentences ending with swiftly

It was Alison who crossed the room swiftly. [9]
Was Helena's image, which now floated before him so bewitchingly, destined to fade as swiftly? [10]
It was not until Janet pronounced her name that she turned swiftly. [9]
The good work took a brisk start, now, and went on swiftly. [5]
The good word took a brisk start, now, and went on quite swiftly. [5]
He sprang towards the wall and examined it swiftly. [11]
At a thousand, the market broke: the prices tumbled swiftly. [5]
Mirth sprang to the lips of the men like foam on a beaker of wine, so that the evening ran towards midnight swiftly. [11]
She was coming swiftly. [9]
Therefore he climbed swiftly. [13]

Short sentences using swiftly

It came on swiftly, heavily. [11]

Sentences containing swiftly two or more times

The two men saw their danger, and pushed swiftly down the mountainside and towards us, but more swiftly still these narrow snake-like streams came on. [11]

More example sentences with the word swiftly in them

A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
Charley reckoned swiftly with his fate. [11]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
Once in a while the Vicomtesse would look up at me swiftly, when I paused, and then go on with her work again. [9]
Once in a while a detachment of the Home Guards, commanded by a lieutenant; would march swiftly into a street and stop before a house, whose occupants would run to the rear, only to encounter another detachment in the alley. [9]
Time passes swiftly when thoughts are cheerful, or are only tinged with the soft melancholy of a brief separation. [11]
He watched her when the baker, at last, overcome by his own feelings--and ashamed of them--got up and stole swiftly out of the garden. [11]
During the first week Dion's wound and fever still harassed him, but the prediction of Pyrrhus that the pure, fresh sea-air would benefit the sufferer had been fulfilled, and the monotonous days had passed swiftly enough to the young bride in caring for the invalid. [10]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
But the danger was increasing every moment, and, warm as was the parting, the last clasp of the hand and kiss swiftly followed the first words of greeting. [10]
Beneath his speech was an undercurrent--or undertow, perhaps--carrying her swiftly, easily, helpless into the deep waters of intimacy. [9]
Her mobile mind wandered swiftly from lofty to petty things; she seized the cards to see whether fate would unite her to Zorrillo or to Ulrich, and the red ten, which represented herself, lay close beside the green knave, Pasquale. [10]
He had immense vitality, he was tireless, and abundant in work and industry; he went from one thing to another with ease and swiftly changing eagerness. [11]
Bounding swiftly away, Venters fled around the corner, across the street, and, leaping a hedge, he ran through yard, orchard, and garden to the sage. [13]
Yet the glow vanished swiftly enough. [10]
Master Adrian, the valet, had just brought it, but this time Charles glanced over the important expressions of opinion given by the young minister swiftly and without deeper examination. [10]
Show Thy mercy upon us this day, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation; make the hearts of Thy servants to rejoice in Thy mercy; smite down our enemies and destroy them swiftly beneath the feet of Thy faithful servants! [2]
He hurried swiftly up the stairs. [10]
And she glanced up at him swiftly, diviningly. [9]
He strode swiftly, turning from time to time to scan the slope for riders. [13]
The fool had travelled more swiftly than Jersey justice, whose feet are heavy. [11]
David motioned them towards the great gates, and, without speaking, passed swiftly down the pathway and emerged upon the road without. [11]
The next ascent took grip of fingers as well as toes, but he climbed steadily, swiftly, to reach the projecting corner, and slipped around it. [13]
Yet he set to work swiftly and prudently, helping with his own hands when occasion required. [10]
He moved swiftly to the window, for the presence was near the door. [11]
Then going swiftly to the third story, he waked Dr. Mathys, the Emperor's leech. [10]
The peal of thunder, which so swiftly followed the lightning, also startled them and when, soon after, a second one shook the house with its crashing, rattling roar, Herr Ernst went out to wake the chief packer. [10]
There ran swiftly through the young man's brain the brief story that Pretty Pierre had told him. [11]
She swept swiftly through the streets and bazaars on her mission to Nahoum. [11]
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]
I had no thought of staying there to moralize upon the theme; but, as I looked, a figure came out of the dusk ahead, and moved swiftly towards me. [11]
As they stood there, silently listening, the sound of two horses galloping swiftly away fell on their ear, and after a longer interval a prolonged whistle from the Nile and a cry of distress. [10]
For an instant there was an involuntary arrest of Jean Jolicoeur's look, as though memory had been roused, but this swiftly passed, and he said: "Fine dogs, them! [11]
Venters trembled, and then swiftly turned his gaze from her face--from her eyes. [13]
The smell of the wood came to them, and a little trail of sweet smoke was left behind as the canoe swiftly passed into the mist on the other side and was gone. [11]
She thoughtfully gave the wheel a push, and as it turned swiftly she remembered the Swiss dance the evening before, and suddenly clenched her small right hand and dealt the palm of her left a light blow. [10]
Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... something big, that splashed into the water. [2]
She went up the stairs, at first swiftly, then more slowly, then with almost lagging feet. [11]
She came into the sick-room swiftly and noiselessly, put the nun through a strict cross-examination with the fretful sharpness of a person disturbed in her night's rest. [10]
And she answered the letter, swiftly and with no hesitation, but with a throbbing heart. [4]
It swept across the isthmus in gusts, which followed one another more and more swiftly, driving before them dense clouds of yellow sand. [10]
When they reached the group of paupers they rested upon a woman with deadly pale, hollow cheeks, pressing a pitifully emaciated infant to her dry breast, and her eyes swiftly filled with tears. [10]
The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing. [2]
Soon we saw the English force advancing, swiftly and in handsome order, the sunlight flashing from its arms. [5]
Keeping close to the edge of the cottonwoods, he went swiftly and silently westward. [13]
Taking her hand the Duke's Daughter--as true and whimsical a spirit as ever lived in troubled days and under the aegis of the sword- led her swiftly to the Queen's chamber. [11]
The lock gave, the door flew open, and Madelinette stepped swiftly into the room, in time to see George Fournel sway and fall, his sword rattling on the hard oak floor. [11]
I slipped off the cloak, looked at Jamond, who murmured once again, 'Courage,' and then I stepped out swiftly, and made for a low, large dais at one side of the room. [11]
At the end the blow came swiftly and suddenly, as he would have wished it. [6]
There are others that flow carelessly in the upper sunshine, begin to ripple and dance, then run swiftly, and rush into rapids in which there is no escape (though friends stand weeping and imploring on the banks) from the awful plunge of the cataract. [4]
He shut his teeth, went swiftly across the room, and beside a great carved oak table touched a hidden spring in the side of it. [11]
The expression of sympathy and understanding in the woman's eyes, as she rose, brought the blood swiftly to Janet's face. [9]
Going a roundabout swiftly, you came to the shed first, and posted yourself at the little window on the sea-side. [11]
Then he fired swiftly, shot after shot, and three men fell. [11]
He rose, turned swiftly, saw a bottle swinging, threw up his hand . [11]
She kissed her, swiftly, on the cheek, and fled from the room.... Supper was an ordeal. [9]
She looked round swiftly, but her brother had not noticed. [11]
His brain worked swiftly, but everything that passed before his eyes was, as it were, in a kaleidoscope, vivid and glowing, but yet intangible. [11]
He swung round swiftly, and saw Vanne Castine's bear not fifteen-feet away from him! [11]
Then he came swiftly, and forced me back upon the garden wall. [11]
As he turned swiftly toward the offender his profile had an eagle-like effect that startled me, seemingly realizing a new quality in the man. [9]
Suddenly she stepped swiftly to him, with a look and touch that drove from him any doubt of her quick intelligence or feeling. [13]
The priest walked swiftly through the wintry streets, welcoming as a sort of penance the biting frost which burned his face and penetrated his garments. [4]
The news went swiftly round the city. [4]
He could hear swiftly retreating footsteps. [11]
But she passed swiftly on, keeping them back with grave words and gestures, until, before the door of the great anteroom thronged with Greek and Egyptian petitioners, she met Zeno, the Keeper of the Seal. [10]
The suspicion followed swiftly on his recalling to mind her vehement repudiation of his proffered gifts did he think she wanted what he could buy for her! [9]
Thus guided, Venters swiftly gazed ahead to make out a dust-clouded, dark group of horsemen riding down the slope. [13]
Then, dismounting, he swiftly crept back through the long grass into the thicket again, mounted the mare, and drove her at laboured gallop also around the curve, so that it seemed to the plainsmen following that both men had gone that way. [11]
The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved backwards and forwards across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. [11]
As he moved swiftly away, watching his long strides, she said proudly, "As deep as the sea. [11]
Eva wound it swiftly around the little roll, and the maid hastily left the room, sure of the gratitude of the true and steadfast Biberli. [10]
She had gone swiftly and silently. [9]
She pressed them swiftly against his mouth. [11]
A flush passed swiftly across his face and faded away, as, with quick sensitiveness, he glanced at Nicolas and another passenger, a fat priest. [11]
Louder--louder--next minute it swelled swiftly up into a roar of shoutings, barkings, tramplings, and swept by like a cyclone. [5]
Then she broke suddenly into a loud and piercing shout of joy, and flinging up her arms she flew up the mountain towards a traveller who came swiftly down to meet her. [10]
Then, as if suddenly instinct with life, it leaped hurtingly down to alight on the steep incline, to bound more swiftly into the air, to gather momentum, to plunge into the lofty leaning crag below. [13]
The current was strong, and the logs came on swiftly. [11]
Once in the street, he faced a predicament, but swiftly decided that the telephone was impossible under the circumstances, that there could be no decent procedure without going himself to Park Street. [9]
As Li Choo stole swiftly away, he met two other figures, silent and shadowy, and somehow strangely unreal, like his own. [11]
How swiftly and steadily the keel of his little boat cut through the crisply foaming waves on which it rose and fell! [10]
No word was spoken till they entered the carriage and were driven swiftly away. [11]
When the organ sounded, and through a low door in the chancel the priest entered, preceded by a couple of acolytes, and advanced swiftly to the reading-desk, there was an awed hush in the congregation. [4]
As he closed, some were kneeling, many were crying; all, profoundly moved, watched him as, with the benediction and the sign of the cross, he turned and walked swiftly to the door of the sacristy. [4]
As he did so, a figure slipped from behind the press in the bedroom, swiftly raised the trap-door in the flooring, then, shadowed by the door leading into the hall-way, waited for him. [11]
Unnoted, the desire so swiftly follows the thought and juggles with the will. [4]
The two were smothered in quilts brought from the Cure's house, and carried swiftly to the cool safety of the grass and trees beyond. [11]
Her eyes opened slowly, and for the instant she did not understand, but when she did, the blood stole swiftly back to her neck and face and forehead, and she started in dismay. [11]
Natasha, who was sitting opposite to him with her eldest daughter on her lap, turned her sparkling eyes swiftly from her husband to the things he showed her. [2]
I think I should prefer to go swiftly, suddenly, but without the horror of blood and bruises, and that sort of thing. [11]
For a minute she wrote swiftly, nervously, and had nearly finished a page when Kitty said to her, "I think I had better see what you have written. [11]
But all that she had done for the man to whom the posthorses were swiftly bearing her seemed to her free from reproach and blameless. [10]
He kept a sharp lookout on the swiftly varying impulses and inspirations of my bicycle, and shouted to the man accordingly: "To the left! [5]
She watched the shadows lengthen down the slope; she felt the cool west wind sweeping by from the rear; and she wondered at low, yellow clouds sailing swiftly over her and beyond. [13]
All these experiments seem to prove that the bite of the uraeus serpent, whose image on the Egyptian crown symbolizes the sovereign's instant power over life and death, stills the heart most swiftly and with the least suffering. [10]
But all the scenes swiftly conjured up before her mental vision were very different from that just witnessed. [10]
At last she saw him swiftly crossing the chancel, mounting the pulpit steps, and he towered above her, a dominant figure, his white surplice sharply outlined against the dark stone of the pillar. [9]

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