Quickness

(n.) The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

(n.) Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.

(n.) Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.

(n.) Sharpness; pungency of taste.

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• No, she said softly, laughing at his sudden quickness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will and action, that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these changes upon him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I never could, even in forming a common acquaintance, assert or prove a claim to average quickness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They had never seen such quickness. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• No, no--oh, not there,' replied Job, with a quickness very unusual to him, 'not there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her quickness anticipated what I might have said presently but as yet had only thought. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Till this moment I had listened with living joy--I had answered with gleeful quickness; a name froze me; three words struck me mute. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They must begin with some quickness of sight and hand, and exercise improves them. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• As she charged, Kulonga unslung his bow and fitted an arrow with almost unthinkable quickness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• With the quickness of thought, he follows Sir Leicester Dedlock's look towards a little box upon a table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Yes, I always say so,' Mrs. Gradgrind cried, with unexpected quickness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He has sense enough and quickness enough; he likes being on the land, and it's my belief that he could learn business well if he gave his mind to it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Perhaps not,' said Fascination Fledgeby, with great quickness of repartee; 'but I expect it will be devilish warm to-morrow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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