Rapidity

Examples

• In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The enthusiasm of the crusaders evaporated with astounding rapidity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This device not only worked with great rapidity, but was extremely sensitive, and would respond to currents too weak to affect the most delicate electromagnetic relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was a curious example of establishing standard practice while changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity all the elements involved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So Rawdon sate down, and wrote off, Brighton, Thursday, and My dear Aunt, with great rapidity: but there the gallant officer's imagination failed him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I know well enough, continued Wellesley, pacing up and down the room with a feverish rapidity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It presents, therefore, much less difficulty in the insulation of the wires than frictional electricity, whilst the rapidity of its transmission is for practical purposes equally efficient. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The linotype machine has added greatly to the rapidity of this centuries-old process. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As the noise and rapidity of the drumbeats increased the dancers apparently became intoxicated with the wild rhythm and the savage yells. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The Gatling soon made its way widely, and its rapidity of fire became a proverb. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What we have further to say is a question of progress in rapidity of action rather than of invention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Reis evidently did not know how to make the vibrations of his diaphragm translate themselves into exactly commensurate and correlated electric impulses of equal rapidity, range, and quality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And away went the good-tempered old fellow down the slide, with a rapidity which came very close upon Mr. Weller, and beat the fat boy all to nothing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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