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celerity
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  • Multitudinous, carrying attaché-cases, dodging with incredible celerity in and out, they went past like a river in spate.†  (source)
  • Meanwhile with a celerity that Jules Peterson, as a business man, would have quite understood, the remains were carried into another apartment of one of the most fashionable hotels in the world.†  (source)
  • At the Rink Rapids two native huskies, Teek and Koona, were added; and the celerity with which Buck broke them in took away Francois's breath.†  (source)
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  • Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case.†  (source)
  • And, lord bless you, the lubber was astonished at the celerity.†  (source)
  • Hanson jumped out of bed with more celerity than he usually displayed and looked at the note.†  (source)
  • His attention had been drawn to it often by the three words in silver lettering on a black cloth, which, with two model coffins, adorned the window: Economy, Celerity, Propriety.†  (source)
  • The dark, heavy form of Mrs. Jett could be discerned in the flickering light of fire; contrary to her usual phlegmatic action, she was moving with a celerity that spoke eloquently of the nature of that departure.†  (source)
  • They slid down behind it with remarkable celerity, and from this position they began briskly to slice up the blue men.†  (source)
  • When he arrived there, the sides of the venerable fortress seemed suddenly rent in a thousand places, and from every rent leaped a red tongue of flame and a white gush of smoke; a deafening explosion followed, which drowned the shoutings of the multitude, and made the ground tremble; the flame-jets, the smoke, and the explosions, were repeated over and over again with marvellous celerity, so that in a few moments the old Tower disappeared in the vast fog of its own smoke, all but the very top of the tall pile called the White Tower; this, with its banners, stood out above the dense bank of vapour as a mountain-peak projects above a cloud-rack.†  (source)
  • Gentlemen, here's a fender that if you had the misfortune to hang yourselves would cut you down in no time—with astonishing celerity—four-and-sixpence—five—five-and-sixpence—an appropriate thing for a spare bedroom where there was a four-poster and a guest a little out of his mind—six shillings—thank you, Mr. Clintup—going at six shillings—going—gone!†  (source)
  • , with assiduous celerity.†  (source)
  • And, in fact, many of the qualities that make a great deed were there: the decision, the resolution, the courage, the celerity, the clear eye, and the strong hand.†  (source)
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