19 adjectives to describe promptitude

In the meantime, as it was feared that the health of Governor Call, who was understood to have suffered much from sickness, might not be adequate to the crisis, and as Major-General Jesup was known to have reached Florida, that officer was directed to assume the command, and to prosecute all needful operations with the utmost promptitude and vigor.

2. Then, the decision and prudence of character, shown in her visit to Elizabeth, her older relative; her journey in haste over the hills to consult with her cousin, which journey it is otherwise difficult to accord with the oriental customs of the time, unless Mary, young as she was, had possessed unusual promptitude and energy of disposition.

Some of the infantry were literally so swift to follow the example of the cavalry, that the Highlanders believed they were shamming, and so did not follow up their success with sufficient promptitude to reap its proper fruits.

Well, can we see the wonders of the place, Mr. Conolly; or do we disturb you?" "Not at all," replied Conolly, turning to one of the models, and beginning his showman's lecture with disquieting promptitude.

In acknowledging this note Mrs. Washburn alludes to one of Mrs. Prentiss' most striking traitsthe eager promptitude with which she would execute little commissions for her friends.

And she promised in the pride of her heart to make interest for us with William to favour us so that we might get our parcels of drapery from Maynard's with exceptional promptitude.

"I'll walk down there now," said Hilda, with extraordinary promptitude.

" "Well, Mr. Danvers, I accept the conditionspeak what you will," said Marston, with a gloomy promptitude.

The details were vague, and not very comprehensible, but they seemed to indicate on his part an astounding presence of mind, a heroic promptitude in action.

The corporation of the city of Washington with honorable promptitude offered the Department the use of the west wing of the City Hall, now occupied by the mayor and councils and their officers and the officers of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

" "I should not do that," replied Steinmetz with a leisurely promptitude.

This crime was avenged, with true northern promptitude, by Wiglaf, one of the king's followers; and while the second youth effected an escape, Beowulf was summoned by the Thing to accept the now vacant throne.

he replied with such offhand promptitude that I was certain the answer would have been the same had I asked him if he was a dromedary.

Such was his peculiar promptitude of mind.

"There, I did ought to think more o' your feelin's," said Jenny, drying her eyes with surprising promptitude.

Whether he was more than a jester may well be doubted; yet Coleridge, when he heard him, said: 'I have before in my time met with men of admirable promptitude of intellectual power and play of wit, which, as Stillingfleet says: "The rays of wit gild wheresoe'er they strike,"

Peter and the rest of the party were with her, and after a long silence he turned towards her and said, "Grandmother, there are no ghosts in our house, are there?" "Ne'er a one," exclaimed the nurse with zealous promptitude, "they don't come to houses where good folks live.

Once more Ropata stamped it under, and the generalship with which he repaired the mistakes made by others, and routed a body of 500 insurgents was not more remarkable than the cold-blooded promptitude with which after the fight he shot four prisoners of note with his own hand.

But near them, meanwhile, a sullen fire replies with desperate promptitude to the rebel shots.

19 adjectives to describe  promptitude