It is true that Colonel Visscher's regiment was detailed as a rear-guard, and I question if even such a precaution would have been taken but for the fact that the provision and ammunition wagons, which were not able to move at as rapid a pace as the men, needed something in the way of protection.

There are few who have so rapid a sale for their wares, that all the goods which their own capital, or the capital which they can borrow, enables them to supply, are carried off as fast as they can be supplied.

Was ever so strange a transformation, so swift an oblivion of old enmities and rancors, so rapid a growth of union and concord out of hatred and strife!"

I was to give the head only; to produce as rapid an effect with as little labor as possible; to alter nothing; to add nothing; and, above all, to be ready to leave the house before daybreak.

So rapid an elevation of a man previously unknown as a politician could hardly fail to create very widespread dissatisfaction, which was in some degree augmented by the nationality of the new minister.

The States already above the European average, except New York, have increased in as rapid a ratio since passing that point as ever before, while no one of them is equal to some other parts of our country in natural capacity for sustaining a dense population.

But so rapid a rise in the value of his land quite dazzled the proprietor, and the labourerfor he was really nothing better, though fortunate enough to have a little moneyentered on his farm.

From the Sepotuba rapids our course at the outset lay westward.

How rapid its triumphs when it became adapted to the rude barbaric mind, or to the degenerate people of the Empire!

So wondrously rapid a courtship never did I see!"

Never had I met a woman for whom I conceived so hearty and rapid a dislike.