Which preposition to use with quick
So, quick as a flash, he rushed by me, and threw himself into the very face of the desperate brute.
They proved to be a herd of cows and calveswhich, by the way, are quicker in their movements than the bulls.
Away he flew, quicker than tongue can tell.
I was too quick for him.
And this, equally evidently, springs out of the innumerable greed of individualsthe countless fibres that combine to one resultthe desire of private persons to get rich quick at all costs, to make their gains out of others' losses, to take advantage of each other, to triumph in success regardless of others' failures.
But he has lately learned, from the critics of the period, that he ought to look for it, and that it is the proper thing nowadays to pitch into every journal which does not, in every part, please every body, whether they be smart or dull; those quick of appreciation, or those slow gentlemen who always come in with their congratulations upon the birth of a joke at the time its funeral is taking place.
I told General Merritt to give us the word to start out at the proper time, and presently he sang out: "Go in now, Cody, and be quick about it.
It is quick with the life of the race.
"Tie a little bottle o' quick to your sled," answered Dillon.
He was quick on his own feet, and for a few seconds he followed the dodging Darrin about, raining in blows that required all of Dave's adroitness to escape.
" The Prince sprang to his feet in all the passion of a man who for the first time receives a personal insult; of an Autocrat stung to the quick by an unprecedented outrage to his authority and dignity.
They had come up double quick from Savannah, and as they were regarded as veterans, the greatest confidence was soon manifest as to the successful termination of the battle.
Her faith through form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good; O sacred be the flesh and blood, To which she links a truth divine.
The easterly wind sent her lightly before it, cutting sheer and quick through the roughened sea.
an' he pulled me quick into the room an' locked the door behind me.
"Shut it quick after me," he said.
A heaviness near death sits on my brow, And I must sleep: Bear me thou gentle bank, For ever if thou wilt: you sweet ones all, Let me unworthy press you: I could wish I rather were a Coarse strewed o're with you, Than quick above you.
" "How I do what?" "Why come back, quick like that, with what you say.
The parties were to keep in touch with one another by smoke signalsthey're made with blanketsand there was to be a fire-making contest, to see which could make fire quickest without matches.
All the inkstains of his youth had been obliterated, and those nails which had once been bitten to the quick during the throes of financial study were now things of beauty.
He stretched up his hand and stroked Benjy, and Anne felt the rabbit's heart beat sharp and quick against her breast.
I have at last touched the quick within thee.
" This was said to the sentry as the group, detailed for Moccasin Creek, filed off at a double-quick down the hill.