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SWIFTLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a swift manner
Example:
she moved swiftly
Synonyms:
fleetly; swiftly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
swift (moving very fast)
Context examples:
I could not move swiftly over the rough, broken ground, but as I looked round me in despair I saw a well-marked, hard-beaten path which ran across in front of me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Something rushed swiftly by her, and Laurie's voice cried out...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He would have marvelled that a whole people—women and children and aged—could travel so swiftly, had he not known the terror that drove them on.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meanwhile the schooner gradually fell off and filled again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
His head bent over swiftly, and, as his lips approached, hers flew to meet them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He swiftly lost the fastidiousness which had characterized his old life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The man went off noiselessly and swiftly, but was back in a few minutes with a flat brown basket.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Swiftly therefore shall her post-boy drive through the village, amid the gaze of Sunday groups, and speedy shall be her descent from it.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
