Rapidly

Examples

• Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The instruments show a rapidly decreasing air pressure on all parts of Barsoom--the engine has stopped. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Kala did not wait to see more, but, turning, moved rapidly back along the trail. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This tale, therefore, shall be rapidly unfolded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was a difference amongst them as amongst the educated; and when I got to know them, and they me, this difference rapidly developed itself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The old lady was rapidly giving way, but she did not like to do it all at once; so she only said, 'Ah! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We first look with impatience upon immaturity, regarding it as something to be got over as rapidly as possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Otherwise the fumes of powder could not have been blown so rapidly through the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After boiling, an d then cooling rapidly, the contents of the crucible proved a black glass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Meanwhile, Rose was rapidly recovering. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He thought that it would rapidly give man new ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Logan entered the service himself as colonel of a regiment and rapidly rose to the rank of major-general. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He then cuts this off with a wet knife which made it cut more rapidly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again, he found it very plain sailing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• By increasing the number of cylinders the product was rapidly added to, each cylinder printing on one side 2,000 sheets per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I heard that Barclay had married Nancy, and that he was rising rapidly in the regiment, but even that did not make me speak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And I cannot get there in less than an hour or more,' muttered Nancy: brushing swiftly past him, and gliding rapidly down the street. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He was also rapidly getting out the materials and constructing the boats for a third bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A private-line department was established, and the business taken over from Pope, Edison, and Ashley was rapidly enlarged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I hastened on as rapidly as I dared through the darkness until I reached the point at which they had left the corridor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The storm appeared to approach rapidly; and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• More than once he fidgeted with his feet and tapped rapidly with his fingers upon the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in the branches of a tree. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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