Swiftness

(n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

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• The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Mrs. Rouncewell, who holds the light, is giddy with the swiftness of his eyes and hands as he starts up, furnished for his journey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness to a distance of 660 geographical miles. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• With exemplary swiftness Bob Gliddery departed, and returned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• With a bound the black leaped entirely over the rushing beast and turning with incredible swiftness planted a second arrow in Horta's back. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It was the conception of an inspired moment, and she shot off with her utmost swiftness to work it out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• While doing this, with a swiftness incredible to one who has not watched an Italian peasant, he indicated a very remarkable and sinister smile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Then he who is to be a really good and noble guardian of the State will require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness and strength? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I have just discovered that the goose owes its swiftness to the shape of its feet. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Yet he was probably of a delicate physique, because of the swiftness with which he died under the pains of crucifixion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I sunk to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• High into bending and swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible swiftness, while Tarzan chafed at the slowness of his progress. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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