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immediate (happening instantly with no delay)
- Mr. Bumble instantaneously turned back his collar again; laid his hat and stick upon a chair; and drew another chair up to the table.Chapter 23 — Which Contains the Substance of a Pleasant Conversation.... (53% in)
- The glance was instantaneous.Chapter 48 — The Flight of Sikes (13% in)
- For two or three months, he contented himself with hinting that he feared the air began to disagree with him; then, finding that the place really no longer was, to him, what it had been, he settled his business on his assistant, took a bachelor's cottage outside the village of which his young friend was pastor, and instantaneously recovered.Chapter 53 — And Last (31% in)
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