Speedily

Examples

• Early on the morning of 30th of April McClernand's corps and one division of McPherson's corps were speedily landed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Summer freckles yield very speedily to this treatment. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• That is a detail which I shall speedily supply. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was ushered into the dining-room, where, doubtless, he speedily helped his rector to empty the decanters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As I had predicted, Early was soon found in front of Sheridan in the valley, and Pennsylvania and Maryland were speedily freed from the invaders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here's your health, Sammy, and may you speedily vipe off the disgrace as you've inflicted on the family name. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• All doubts upon the subject, if he had any, were speedily removed by the young lady's behaviour. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But, this impulse yielded to, I speedily put her out of the classe, for, upon that poignant strain, she wept more bitterly than ever. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They had little originality, and speedily became servile copyists, so that Palissy ware for a time lost the high place it had held. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I was rather disappointed that I did not hear from her again speedily; but I made excuses for her, and was too busy, andmay I add? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Return speedily, Lionel. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And with this she passed on, and speedily found her way to Mrs. Osborne's lodgings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do so sooner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mr Inspector speedily returning down the wooden stairs, with a police constable, Lightwood asked him if he had seen his friend leave them? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Whose letters were those, god-daughter, that you hid away so speedily? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This was speedily fortified, while a detail was laying the pontoon bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They were speedily led to Dover Castle, from whose keep Adrian had watched the movements of the boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Wars would, in general, be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She breathed an earnest prayer to die speedily, for there was no relief but death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They hurried on, and were speedily at Randalls. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were speedily driven away, and several hundred captured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Besides, it will be a marvel if the horsemen come not upon us from York, unless we speedily accomplish our purpose. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If I conceived a design, I should speedily abandon it, exhausted by the operation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The king relied on his army, and this was usually a mercenary army of foreigners, speedily mutinous if there was no pay or plunder, and easily bribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To Rotherwood will I come, brave Saxon, and that speedily; but, as now, pressing matters of moment detain me from your halls. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• By nine o'clock Crocker, of McPherson's corps, who was now in advance, came upon the enemy's pickets and speedily drove them in upon the main body. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Taking, then, all these facts into consideration, he speedily made up his mind to ask the Count to be his guest, and did so without delay. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• My attention was speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When the shadow of any figure is thrown on the prepared surfaced, the part concealed by it remains white, and the other parts speedily become dark. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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