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• Come on a swift horse. (10)
• The run was pretty swift. (10)
• Swift, violent knocks at the door resounded. (12)
• Again she gave him that swift look. (8)
• All passed too swift for happiness. (10)
• Swift to hell, who harms the Queen! (10)
• The nurse, after one swift look, went out. (8)
• Swift with the to-morrow, green-winged Spring! (10)
• After a while, her steps were mechanically swift. (10)
• She shuddered, as at a swift cleaving of cold steel. (10)
• Philip drank in the face upon a swift shot of his eyes. (10)
• Swift as Danube clove our path Down from East to Western sun. (10)
• Swift to building work addressed, Any straw will help a nest. (10)
• There was in advance one of the famous swift island wherries. (10)
• Straight as the flight of a dove We went, swift winging we went. (10)
• I saw things, but at too swift a rate for the conscience of them. (10)
• With the swift variation of her aspect at times, her tone changed. (10)
• Galissonière therefore resolved to take swift and effective action. (19)
• And then one day a little swift brutality shook him to the very soul. (8)
• Lo, as if swift the Furies flew, The Fates at heel at a cry to horse! (10)
• The road is not so smooth, the cars not so smooth-running or so swift. (9)
• I have the best possible Swift in my head, if I could only get him out. (14)
• Swift was still read when I was young, and how resist the alliteration? (14)
• He took a swift turn up and down the room; then came and stood before her. (8)
• Jon preserved silence, hoping against hope that she might be thinking it swift. (8)
• Furthermore, friends had gone to the Privy Councillor to plead for swift action. (12)
• Then, by a swift transition, he was walking in the garden talking to Mrs. Dennant. (8)
• She could not help being interested in the man as she watched his swift movements. (13)
• Usually swift, almost careless, she was a long time that evening over her toilette. (8)
• So swift and sudden had been the blow that the citizens of Montreal were paralysed. (19)
• Nedda gave her a swift look, then dropped her lashes, so that her eyes seemed closed. (8)
• The shadows lay as solid on the swift surface of the stream as on the stable meadows. (2)
• Turning around at his words she cast a swift, scrutinizing glance over the building. (13)
• When the swift flame flared up he sighed with relief, and stood still and quivering. (12)
• The cage, coming swift and silent from below, shot open its doors with a sharp rattle. (8)
• With a swift movement she slides on to the sofa, and lies prostrate, with eyes closed. (8)
• Christian suddenly lost the simple assurance born of his swift and unreflective action. (12)
• Little Skepsey hove in sight, coming swift as the point of an outrigger over the flood. (10)
• The pace is swift, and he must keep his physical and mental health in perfect condition. (16)
• I hear the rustlings of the birth and death of pleasure; and the rattling of swift wheels. (8)
• The birds hid themselves, not one flower bloomed, and the red-brown river was full and swift. (8)
• Then, with a swift glance at her wristwatch, she falls back on the sofa and closes her eyes.] (8)
• Rather to my shame, my companion beat me at running; she was very swift, and my legs were stiff. (10)
• The birds fluttered through the little door and went, with a swift flight, directly to their goal. (5)
• She crossed the side street, stopped for a second, gave a swift look round, then came resolutely on. (8)
• Unlike most violinists, he was tall and thin, with great pliancy of body and swift sway of movement. (8)
• A woman like a swift vision of ruin with those eyes, and thickly powdered cheeks, and loose red mouth. (8)
• The flight from the winter of the North had been so swift that no dignity could withstand its effects. (12)
• The swift motion and titillation by the perpetual close shaving of other vehicles were sedative to him. (8)
• And, yielding to a swift impulse, he put his arms round her, pressed her to him, and kissed her forehead. (8)
• She looked up at him, nodded vehemently, and her upper teeth gleamed again in that swift, brilliant smile. (8)
• The duchess measured Chloe and the beau together, with a mind swift in apprehending all that it hungered for. (10)
• He watched the reddish sand, fluid and swift as water, flicker through an eye from the upper bulb into the lower. (12)
• Most editors would feel like making the same answer to an aggrieved person that Swift gave to one of his victims. (16)
• The swift deduction from his own feelings cleansed her of a suspicion to the contrary, and he became lighthearted. (10)
• In wide sweeps, and with a swift and equable gallop, the ceaseless stream of water visits and makes green the fields. (2)
• She did avoid it, and with a swift run gained the end of the rope without effort, and went up and down it a second time. (5)
• He will also make as determined a swift descent upon the man of his wilful choice, whom we cannot distinguish as a true one. (10)
• He owned he might have been mistaken, as the brilliant fellow flew swift and high between leaves, like an ordinary fritillary. (10)
• And they could not understand at all why no swift depredating graces nor any habit of long soft hooting belonged to that lady-bird. (8)
• With March it came to his spending many hours of each long, swift day in his berth with a book under the convenient electric light. (9)
• No fly shook the round of the silver net; No insect the swift bird chased; Only two travellers moved and met Across that hazy waste. (10)
• A yacht, trim and swift, cut across their course; the ladies on board waved a salutation with their handkerchiefs, and Libby responded. (9)
• Only still more sweet and lovely For those terrors on her brows, Those swift glances wild and brilliant, Those delicious panting vows. (10)
• He hardly dozed at all during his swift journey through the sleeping country; nor when he reached his room at Monkland did he go to bed. (8)
• Well divined from day to day Is the swift speech between them twain; For when the bird is scared away, The captive bursts to song again. (10)
• An encounter between Swift and Johnson, were it imaginable, would present us probably the most prodigious Gigantomachy in literary polemics. (10)
• Indomitably resolute of soul, they held their course with the swift pace of custom, and only here and there they showed the effect of the heat. (9)
• An amatory knightly compliment breasting her perturbation roused an unwonted spite; and a swift reflection on it startled her with a suspicion. (10)
• Diplomatic Wilfrid had issued the order, with the object, first, of dazzling her vision; and secondly, to set the wheels of her brain in swift motion. (10)

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