57 adjectives to describe swiftness

I saw the radiances of Jupiter and Saturn, spinning, with incredible swiftness, in huge orbits.

He was off again in an instant, bent almost double, and bursting through the tangled bushes with amazing swiftness.

The fact that a girl was possessed of such extraordinary swiftness that she would have been able to escape from a wild beast, by means of her speed alone, had she been in an open plain, was considered one of the most interesting natural wonders which had been brought to the notice of the Roman people by the sports in the arena.

[Sidenote:22] The capitulation had scarcely been made when Corbulo with inconceivable swiftness reached the Euphrates and there waited for the retreating force.

" She was looking out across the waves, which were fairly high to-day, and Patsy saw her lean forward and strike out to sea with strokes of remarkable swiftness.

It runs with astonishing swiftness for its great bulk, at the bottom of lakes and rivers, but not with as much ease on land.

His recovering senses were distracted by a ceaseless watery din, for the breaking waves, rushing with a prodigious swiftness from the harbor to the shore before the driving wind, fell with uproarious crashing into white foam among the rocks.

It is a rough wooden building, with a roof of straw mats, but the sight and sound of the rushing waters, as they shoot away with arrowy swiftness under your feet, the shade of the trees that line the banks, and the cool breeze that always visits the spot, beguile you into a second pipe ere you are aware.

The mountain peaks to the northward became obscured as by thin smoke, the afternoon shortened with alarming swiftness.

Such and such men were to have done the deed; at such a shop the pistol had been bought; at such a spot it was to have been fired;but the marvellous swiftness of the intended victim had ruined all.

But now all unexpectedly, or at any rate with dramatic swiftness, Russia appeared on the scenes, and there was a volte face towards the East.

Leith was apparently everything that Holman and the girls had suspected him of being, and as I looked around at the nearly impenetrable jungle growth upon which the night had come down with that appalling swiftness of the tropics, I understood the helpless condition in which we were placed.

If agreeable people virtually live longer now, so do bores, cheats, slanderers, hypocrites, and people who eat onions and chew tobacco; and the rail enables these to pursue their victims with inevitable, fatal swiftness.

Night had fallen upon us with tropical swiftness, and a cooling breeze was blowing through the open ports, charged with the salt tang of the sea.

She related their adventures with graphic swiftness, and improvised dangers and escapes with such a reckless disregard of truth that Mr. Raleigh was forced to come to the rescue with more startling improbabilities than they would have encountered in the Enchanted Forest.

She dropped it again where she had found it, and made off home with guilty swiftness.

It was the horror of that rapid flight of time, which seemed independent of her own life in its hideous swiftness.

If agreeable people virtually live longer now, so do bores, cheats, slanderers, hypocrites, and people who eat onions and chew tobacco; and the rail enables these to pursue their victims with inevitable, fatal swiftness.

And even as men cried to God at this respite, out of the East with a strange inexplicable swiftness sprang the sun.

He is said to have come from the north, to have been without bones, muscles or members, to have the power of running with infinite swiftness, and to have leveled mountains, filled up valleys, and deprived the coast plains of rain.

It was a wicked blow, delivered with marvelous swiftness, and must have knocked Frank down if it had landed.

" With the methodical swiftness of one accustomed to his work the man set about his task.

Peace is not freed from labour but from noise; And war more force, but not more pains employs; Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind, That, like the earth, it leaves our sense behind;

(He had learned something, while he sat on the central board, of the elaborate system of tickets and officials and enquiry offices by which such miraculous swiftness had been made possible.)

A distant rumble of thunder suddenly sounded, and the sky darkened with ominous swiftness.

57 adjectives to describe  swiftness