20 examples of fleetly in sentences

He passes horsemen, like himself spurring fleetly in the darkness.

But as Beltane went, pondering the jester's saying, the drowsy stillness was shivered by a sudden, loud cry, followed thereafter by a clamour of fierce shouting; therefore Beltane paused and turning, beheld the jester himself who ran very fleetly, yet with three lusty fellows in close pursuit.

But on ran Beltane up the glade very fleetly yet watchful of eye, until, seeing one had outstripped his fellow, he checked his going somewhat, stumbling as one that is spent, whereat the forester shouted the louder and came on amain.

" Then Roger sighed and shook his head and so left Beltane, who fell again to profound meditation; but of a sudden hearing a cry, he turned to behold Roger running very fleetly, who, coming near, caught him by the arm and sought to drag him away.

Sometimes a body of them, fleetly mounted, would gallop up to the skirts of the camp, and try who should hurl his lance farthest within the barriers, having his name inscribed upon it, or a label affixed to it containing some taunting defiance.

Then, buckling his belt more tightly around his waist, he ran fleetly down the road toward the eastward and Sherwood.

Never had he run so fleetly.

How that day was passed, and how fleetly its hours sped away, it is needless to tell.

"What's this?" Ina Deacon produced, fleetly, an unlooked-for dimple.

In your radiant eyes the sun unknowing Has left his glowing to deeper glow, And your tender sighs sound far more sweetly Than the winds that fleetly and blithely blow And first all shyly your small hand lingers With trembling fingers within my own, The blushes slyly and swiftly starting, And then departing like rose-leaves blown.

Past crypt and wayside canopy, Beyond each bloarny throne, Full fleetly speed his heralds free To make his advent known.

It will circulate fleetly through thy veins, and will not rankle there: if thou doubtest this, contemplate the youth and beauty of those who drink it.

It seems that he could modulate from one love affair to another as fleetly and as gracefully as from one key to its remotest neighbour.

Sheshe seemed not to heed him, but rose like one that is dreaming, Slid from his grasp, and fleetly mounted the steps of the gangway, Up to the hurricane-deck, in silence, without lamentation.

There was no worse haste in its more speed; it went fleetly lingering along its leafy dell.

The antelope fleetly runs, and the coyote skulks away from the track, and the gray wolf howls afar off.

I never saw an Indian or anybody else run so fleetly.

Some were running fleetly about, vanishing from light into shadow and glancing forth again, with here and there a little fawn careering at its mother's heels.

"When now the night was ended and there drew near the dawn, Horant began his singing, so that in grove and lawn The birds became all silent, because he sang so sweetly; The people who were sleeping sprang from their couches fleetly.

Reynard, still advised by Frau Rückenau, was shaved smooth, rubbed with butter until he was as slippery as could be, and instructed to feign fear and run fleetly in front of the wolf, kicking up as much sand as possible, and using his brush to dash it into his opponent's eyes and thus blind him.

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