Speeding

Examples

• She came speeding over the sea like a great bird. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As it turned out, however, morning found me speeding over a vast expanse of dead sea bottom after nearly six hours of continuous flight at high speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But Sheridan turned both his flanks and again sent him speeding up the valley, following in hot pursuit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the press itself, and its servitors and messengers, speeding on the wings of electricity, are the children of the inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And far to the east Tarzan of the Apes was speeding through the middle terrace back to his tribe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But as the quality of the print must be retained, there is a limit in this speeding beyond which it is not safe to go. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Said the famous Dr. Arnold of Rugby, as he watched a train speeding through the country, I rejoice to see it, and think that feudality is gone forever. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is probably speeding on its way thither at the present instant as fast as steam can take it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Ten minutes later we were speeding through the night toward Hastor, prepared to strike the first blow for the preservation of Dejah Thoris. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Half an hour later I was speeding back to London by the express train. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Stacey