Faster

Examples

• Everything that arose before his mind drifted him on, faster and faster, more and more steadily, to the terrible attraction. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As he approached her Jane's heart beat faster and her eyes brightened as they had never done before at the approach of any man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I don't think I ever drove faster, but the others were there before us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I have not seen animals that moved faster, unless I might say it of the antelopes of our own great plains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The prisoner counted the measurement again, and paced faster, to draw his mind with him from that latter repetition. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And you have a distance before you, and will walk faster without me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He has certainly been drying up faster since the engagement: the flame of passion, I suppose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The faster the old mail went, the faster came the pursuers--men, horses, dogs, were leagued in the pursuit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The wind strikes the sails, and causes rotation; and the stronger the wind blows, the faster will the wheel rotate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Moreover the engine moved scarcely faster than a horse’s walk, and the expense of running it was very little less than the cost of horse-power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But man's propensity for wearing clothes has led to the invention of every variety of tools for making them faster, cheaper, and better. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Will you walk a little faster? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Venn walked faster than Thomasin, and came to the weir alone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And now I, sitting in the stern, could see, with a faster beating heart, Mill Pond Bank and Mill Pond stairs. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The faster this gets out of here the better. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• My notions are dyed in faster colours than yours, Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Don't try to do it faster than you can. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I am charged with a most agreeable office (breathing rather faster than usual as she spoke. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The Gould and Fisk crowd had cornered gold, and had run the quotations up faster than the indicator could follow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I couldn't make her faster than she is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Going on faster than we are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mrs. Norris had been too well employed to move faster. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mr. Pickwick planted himself into his own corner, as firmly as he could; and on whirled the chaise faster than ever. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The demand for labourers, the funds destined for maintaining them increase, it seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He thrust his head out of the coach window at intervals, and bawled out to know why they didn't go faster. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The paste does its work faster than the polishing powder, and if the articles are very much corroded it is preferable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It was so far a failure, that it was not propelled faster than three miles an hour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• As electro-chemical action takes effect much more rapidly than the mechanical movement of an indenting point, Mr. Bain's telegraph could work much faster than Mr. Morse's. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Typist: Mason