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  • ...but the exceptions and appeals process doesn't do anybody any good if it is not expeditious.   (source)
  • We intend to achieve the highest value reasonably attainable for our shareholders in an expeditious manner...   (source)
  • Democrats first and foremost want this matter ended, ... We believe very strongly about the need to bring this matter to an expeditious close.   (source)
  • I think then the conditions will be created for the most expeditious and effective delivery of humanitarian supplies.   (source)
  • The move was made expeditiously before dark.†   (source)
  • I soon became at least as expeditious and as skilful as either of the other boys.†   (source)
  • Mr. Heathcliff, perceiving us all confounded, rose, and expeditiously made the tea himself.†   (source)
  • Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!†   (source)
  • A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted some passing artisans: "Come here, you!"†   (source)
  • Further experience in making camp was essential before things could be done smoothly and expeditiously.†   (source)
  • She performed her accustomed tasks more expeditiously and even better than usual, then repaired to her tent.†   (source)
  • 'Sir,' said Arthur, striking in expeditiously, 'whoever you are, and however you come to be here, if I were the master of this house I would lose no time in placing you on the outside of it.'†   (source)
  • With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.†   (source)
  • At this point Elizabeth understood the hunter she was to meet him; and thither she urged her way, as expeditiously as the difficulty of the ascent, and the impediment of a forest, in a state of nature, would admit.†   (source)
  • Our largest wicker basket was then slung between Storm and Grumble; we armed ourselves with reaping hooks, and went forth to gather in the corn in the simplest and most expeditious manner imaginable.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Natasha's directions the work now went on expeditiously, unnecessary things were left, and the most valuable packed as compactly as possible.†   (source)
  • The artisan readily understands these passions, for he himself partakes in them: in an aristocracy he would seek to sell his workmanship at a high price to the few; he now conceives that the more expeditious way of getting rich is to sell them at a low price to all.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 33 In which Mr Ralph Nickleby is relieved, by a very expeditious Process, from all Commerce with his Relations Smike and Newman Noggs, who in his impatience had returned home long before the time agreed upon, sat before the fire, listening anxiously to every footstep on the stairs, and the slightest sound that stirred within the house, for the approach of Nicholas.†   (source)
  • But I dressed and wrapped up expeditiously without waking Charley or any one and went down to Mr. Bucket, who was the person entrusted with the secret.†   (source)
  • All was clear, expeditious, explicit.†   (source)
  • He silently and expeditiously encased himself in the covering of the beast, and then awaited such other movements as his more aged companion saw fit to dictate.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bill Sikes no sooner heard the account of the expedition delivered, than he very hastily called up the white dog, and, putting on his hat, expeditiously departed: without devoting any time to the formality of wishing the company good-morning.†   (source)
  • With such thoughts as these, among ten hundred others, Fanny proceeded in her journey safely and cheerfully, and as expeditiously as could rationally be hoped in the dirty month of February.†   (source)
  • We must be expeditious.†   (source)
  • "Because a mistress is one of the cardinal's favorite means; he has not one that is more expeditious.†   (source)
  • We were now to begin to adopt a mode of travelling both more expeditious and less fatiguing than hitherto.†   (source)
  • Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one.†   (source)
  • I will therefore put you upon an expeditious and decisive plan of obtaining this very necessary information.†   (source)
  • They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day.†   (source)
  • It must be expeditious.†   (source)
  • It is not likely that money should be very abundant on either side; and it might strike them that they could be more economically, though less expeditiously, married in London than in Scotland.†   (source)
  • She made a hasty gesture with her hand, as if to entreat my patience and my silence, and turned towards London, whence, as her dress betokened, she had come expeditiously on foot.†   (source)
  • I might have handed him over to Roman justice, which is somewhat expeditious, and which would have been particularly so with him; but I did nothing of the sort—I suffered him and his band to depart.†   (source)
  • "We shall be safe in approaching the place now," said Richard, while they dismounted and fastened their horses; "for I took a look with the glass, and saw John and Leather-Stocking in their canoe fishing before we left home, and Oliver is in the same pursuit; but these may be nothing but shams to blind our eye; so we will be expeditious, for it would not be pleasant to be caught here by them."†   (source)
  • "Sir," he responded, "you are a stranger, and I believe you say yourself that a portion of your life has been spent in Oriental countries, so you are not aware how human justice, so expeditious in barbarous countries, takes with us a prudent and well-studied course."†   (source)
  • For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.†   (source)
  • It filled expeditiously, and the battery was soon erected, the merlons being fram'd of logs and fill'd with earth.†   (source)
  • [4] TO CONCLUDE, however strange it may appear to some, or however unwilling they may be to think so, matters not, but many strong and striking reasons may be given, to shew, that nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and determined declaration for independance.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Mrs. Jennings was in hopes, by this vigorous sketch of their future ennui, to provoke him to make that offer, which might give himself an escape from it;— and if so, she had soon afterwards good reason to think her object gained; for, on Elinor's moving to the window to take more expeditiously the dimensions of a print, which she was going to copy for her friend, he followed her to it with a look of particular meaning, and conversed with her there for several minutes.†   (source)
  • "Mine, however," replied Don Quixote, "is neither impossible nor absurd, but the easiest, the most reasonable, the readiest and most expeditious that could suggest itself to any projector's mind."†   (source)
  • It can apply the resources and power of the whole to the defense of any particular part, and that more easily and expeditiously than State governments or separate confederacies can possibly do, for want of concert and unity of system.†   (source)
  • Tom Jones had ridden one of Mr Western's horses that morning in the chase; so that having no horse of his own in the squire's stable, he was obliged to go home on foot: this he did so expeditiously that he ran upwards of three miles within the half-hour.†   (source)
  • I'll deliver all; And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales, And sail so expeditious that shall catch Your royal fleet far off.†   (source)
  • It is a question whether the landlord or the landlady was the most expeditious in returning this blow.†   (source)
  • The public papers will be expeditious messengers of intelligence to the most remote inhabitants of the Union.†   (source)
  • The landlady, therefore, had no sooner received an intimation of the entrance of the above-said persons than she began to meditate the most expeditious means for their expulsion.†   (source)
  • The merchant, especially in a country of small commercial capital, is often under a necessity of keeping prices down in order to a more expeditious sale.†   (source)
  • Having at length finished his laboured harangue, with which the audience, though it had greatly raised their attention and admiration, were not much edified, as they really understood not a single syllable of all he had said, he proceeded to business, which he was more expeditious in finishing, than he had been in beginning.†   (source)
  • "The surgeon having very expeditiously and dextrously finished his business, began to enquire in what part of the town the wounded man lodged; who answered, 'That he was come to town that very morning; that his horse was at an inn in Piccadilly, and that he had no other lodging, and very little or no acquaintance in town.'†   (source)
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