Quickly

Examples

• The palliative measures we may pass by quickly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All the troops you can quickly assemble should be brought. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You passed out quickly into the passage, and left the door open. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Mr. Sprague realized the trouble, quickly threw off the current and stopped the engine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When the bottle is nearly full, the operator quickly withdraws it with one hand, and having a cork ready in the other, he puts it in before the water can rush out. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He got up hastily, and saying, By the way, I must speak to Wright about the horses, shuffled quickly out of the room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There were woods that had been taken quickly and not smashed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I copied as quickly as I could, but at nine o'clock I had only done nine articles, and it seemed hopeless for me to attempt to catch my train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The average spectator today can see a defect in an exhibited film as quickly as an expert. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yes; and now get it ready as quickly as you can, for the sooner we have tea over the sooner they will go--at least, I hope so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In measuring time we cannot rely on our inward impressions; we even criticize these impressions and spe ak of time as going slowly or quickly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It would be done so quickly and so naturally, that I daresay the young man himself has no recollection of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The outer door was quickly opened, and Tom, who was watching outside, was on the alert, in a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You have money, and can buy the means of travelling to the seacoast as quickly as the journey can be made. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But you must not sacrifice yourself to her from any sense of justice, replied Eustacia quickly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She looked at him quickly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• No, interposed Crispin quickly, before Eunice could speak; we were discussing photographs on yonder sofa. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The gas first evaporating is nitrogen, and a lighted match applied to the surface of the liquid is quickly extinguished, since nitrogen does not support combustion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But fetch him now for this should get there quickly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Birkin glanced quickly round. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Unless you are inviting death for us all you had best drop, and that quickly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In pattens I am, sir, she said quickly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When she heard the door open, she went quickly out of the bed-room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Fred took his hat and stick and rose quickly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typed by Gladys