Use "rapidity" in a sentence

1. But though North America is not yet so rich as England, it is much more thriving, and advancing with much greater rapidity to the further acquisition of riches

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2. In every period its revenue might have been the greatest which its capital could afford, and both capital and revenue might have been augmented with the greatest possible rapidity

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3. Not before the room swung with nauseating rapidity

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4. In its flight it moves with such intense rapidity, that the eye cannot follow it, and when it settles it alights so quietly that the victim does not feel it

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5. potatoes and biscuits disappeared with surprising rapidity, washed down

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6. While the salamanders in general had no poison fangs, no sharp teeth or claws, the animal was described as grabbing prey, ‘viciously,’ and swallowing it, with ‘great rapidity

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7. “See…Princess…I still have the kerchief you gave me…” He began twitching and contracting his muscles with great rapidity, a trick that had gotten him out of math class once, (but only once,) back in grade five

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8. enough, sliding by with increasing rapidity and all too soon it was time for David to return home

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9. Edict followed edict with lightening rapidity

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10. “After we sent the warning to the leaders of the world last night, with the haste you suggested, astounding events ensued with shocking and sudden rapidity

11. Their vessels will include in their crews a few serious spell-casters, and they will be able to pass the word along up the chain of command with great rapidity

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12. “Things have proceeded with amazing rapidity

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13. At first taken aback by the rapidity of the questions, Youssaf looked, scratched his head, then

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14. " With machine gun rapidity he absently flicked the lid of his Zippo with the rubber band around it

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15. and disappear with the rapidity of bubbles on the surface of boiling water

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16. great ease and rapidity, but most of us who have the use of our eyes would

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17. incredible rapidity and touches his heart and his brain, causing them to glow

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18. the heart of its very being; in man the plant has already risen through the soil and is seeking the upper air, and the rapidity of its development is now very

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19. Rapidity of communication will always increase commerce

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20. The important thing is not the rapidity of your progress but rather its certainty

21. For example, there are several cases on record of third-degree burns healing with extraordinary rapidity

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22. I was a bit annoyed that a little girl would question my rapidity

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23. They are blind leaders of the blind moving with fateful rapidity to the ditch of destruction

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24. Despite the volume and rapidity of the traffic, there were no collisions

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25. An addiction to change produces novelty desensitization, resulting in a need for an increase in diversity and rapidity of change

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26. But, as the rapidity of society increases, our capabilities to physically interact and relate has lessened

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27. But, like a kitten, all charm and delicious ways at first, innocent, soft, enchanting, it turns into a cat with appalling rapidity and cruelly claws you

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28. And I was cooling down after my quick walk with a rapidity that meant a cough and a sore throat

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29. Ingeborg was transformed in his eyes with gratifying rapidity into a sister--a gentle maiden sister who on the demise of his wife had taken over the housekeeping; and when in the evenings he bade her a kind good-night he found himself doing it quite naturally on her forehead

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30. several cases on record of third-degree burns healing with extraordinary rapidity

31. Before she could answer, water spilled from the pipes with a mighty rush, filling the pool with startling rapidity

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32. As the years went by, she rose within the ranks of Starry Wisdom with the same rapidity she had shown in her studies

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33. The rapidity with which the facts of an appearance can be noted makes it above all others the method for drapery studies

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34. This is the method commonly used for making studies of drapery, the extreme rapidity with which the position of the lights and shadows can be expressed being of great importance when so unstable a subject as an arrangement of drapery is being drawn

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35. His heart began beating with the rapidity usually reserved for the moment of takeoff

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36. In this new information age, ideas, trends, products or activities can start out as a single instance or occurrence and spread with epidemic rapidity into a wildfire

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37. All this was uttered with extreme rapidity, getting quicker and quicker, but a cough suddenly cut short Katerina Ivanovna's eloquence

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38. "Yes, indeed, and doubtless not without some design, having in view the rapidity of his departure, and all the circumstances preceding it

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39. he declared with the same rapidity and he laid the paper on the table

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40. Bonamy paused, moved a pebble; then darted in with the rapidity and certainty of a lizard's tongue

41. Other models failing her for a time, she undertook to cast her own pretty foot, and the family were one day alarmed by an unearthly bumping and screaming and running to the rescue, found the young enthusiast hopping wildly about the shed with her foot held fast in a pan full of plaster, which had hardened with unexpected rapidity

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42. The wound persisted in healing with a rapidity that astonished him, and instead of trying to forget, he found himself trying to remember

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43. Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle!" and suiting the action to the word, he drew his sword, and with one bound placed himself close to the show, and with unexampled rapidity and fury began to shower down blows on the puppet troop of Moors, knocking over some, decapitating others, maiming this one and demolishing that; and among many more he delivered one down stroke which, if Master Pedro had not ducked, made himself small, and got out of the way, would have sliced off his head as easily as if it had been made of almond-paste

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44. Malambruno told me that, whenever fate provided the knight our deliverer, he himself would send him a steed far better and with less tricks than a post-horse; for he will be that same wooden horse on which the valiant Pierres carried off the fair Magalona; which said horse is guided by a peg he has in his forehead that serves for a bridle, and flies through the air with such rapidity that you would fancy the very devils were carrying him

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45. Thus saith Cide Hamete the Mahometan philosopher; for there are many that by the light of nature alone, without the light of faith, have a comprehension of the fleeting nature and instability of this present life and the endless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author is here speaking of the rapidity with which Sancho's government came to an end, melted away, disappeared, vanished as it were in smoke and shadow

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46. He, previously instructed in what he was to do, laid hold of Sancho, hoisting him up in his arms, and the whole crew, who were standing ready, beginning on the right, proceeded to pass him on, whirling him along from hand to hand and from bench to bench with such rapidity that it took the sight out of poor Sancho's eyes, and he made quite sure that the devils themselves were flying away with him; nor did they leave off with him until they had sent him back along the left side and deposited him on the poop; and the poor fellow was left bruised and breathless and all in a sweat, and unable to comprehend what it was that had happened to him

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47. The crew then hoisted the yard with the same rapidity and clatter as when they lowered it, all the while keeping silence as though they had neither voice nor breath

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48. "When left alone, I was a moment or two before I could recollect myself--One scene had succeeded another with such rapidity, I almost doubted whether I was

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49. Marianne's was finished in a very few minutes; in length it could be no more than a note; it was then folded up, sealed, and directed with eager rapidity

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50. By their uncertain light she thought she could discern it to be drawn by four horses; and this, while it told the excess of her poor mother's alarm, gave some explanation to such unexpected rapidity

51. He could do nothing till he were assured of his fate with Miss Dashwood; and by his rapidity in seeking that fate, it is to be supposed, in spite of the jealousy with which he had once thought of Colonel Brandon, in spite of the modesty with which he rated his own deserts, and the politeness with which he talked of his doubts, he did not, upon the whole, expect a very cruel reception

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52. all the sailors could do we were driven with frightful rapidity towards the foot of a

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53. Education, to use the expression of Plato, moves like a wheel with an ever-multiplying rapidity

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54. "Sire," replied the Indian, "the rapidity of his movements took me so by surprise

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55. surprise; and I, that instant, with the rapidity of the emotions that I felt

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56. As if actuated by a common impulse, his movement was imitated by his companions, and, together they rushed down the pass to the friendly chasm, with a rapidity that rendered the scattering fire of their enemies perfectly harmless

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57. His rider was a priest, dressed in black, and wearing a three-cornered hat; and, spite of the ardent rays of a noonday sun, the pair came on with a fair degree of rapidity

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58. The hand moved on with incredible rapidity, he seemed to see its motion

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59. When the meal was ended, the scout cast a glance upward at the setting sun, and pushed forward with a rapidity which compelled Heyward and the still vigorous Munro to exert all their muscles to equal

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60. All these evolutions are executed with an inconceivable address and marvellous rapidity, without the police interfering in the matter

61. And Pinocchio swam quicker than ever, and flew on with the rapidity of a ball from a gun

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62. Even before the coachman had hailed the concierge, the massy gates rolled on their hinges—they had seen the Count coming, and at Paris, as everywhere else, he was served with the rapidity of lightning

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63. Bertuccio had outdone himself in the taste displayed in furnishing, and in the rapidity with which it was executed

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64. The turkeys, the roast beef and the boiled mutton, the peas and beans and the cabbage, disappeared with astonishing rapidity, which was not to be wondered at, for they were all very hungry from the long drive, and nearly everyone made a point of having at least one helping of everything there was to be had

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65. All this was said with such exceeding rapidity, that there was something in the

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66. My mind, with inconceivable rapidity followed out all the consequences of such a death

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67. Again my mind, with its former inconceivable rapidity, had exhausted the whole subject of the attack upon my sister, her illness, and her death, before his slow and hesitating speech had formed these words

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68. The journey soon became interesting from its rapidity, of which Morcerf had formed no previous idea

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69. " The whole journey was performed with equal rapidity; the thirty-two horses, dispersed over seven stages, brought them to their destination in eight hours

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70. While the count picked up the paper he put spurs to his horse, which leaped in astonishment at such an unusual stimulus, and shot away with the rapidity of an arrow

71. Danglars by the unexpected appearance of the brigade of soldiers, and by the disclosure which had followed, the mansion was deserted with as much rapidity as if a case of plague or of cholera morbus had broken out among the guests

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72. " Monte Cristo trembled from head to foot and as if his determination had been taken with the rapidity of lightning, he struck one of the panes of glass with his elbow; the glass was shivered to atoms, then withdrawing the curtain he saw Morrel, who had been writing at his desk, bound from his seat at the noise of the broken window

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73. Have you admired the rapidity of my fall? Have you been slightly dazzled at the sudden fusion of my ingots? I confess I have seen nothing but the fire; let us hope you have found some gold among the ashes

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74. The journey was performed with that marvellous rapidity which the unlimited power of the count ever commanded

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75. Now and then a jolt more violent than the rest caused him to open his eyes; then he felt that he was still being carried with great rapidity over the same country, thickly strewn with broken aqueducts, which looked like granite giants petrified while running a race

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76. The tide had turned with shocking rapidity, and the infuriating revival in Caris’s popularity had taken him by surprise

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77. Hunger, thirst, and exposure to blistering sun by day and chill by night depleted survivors with frightening rapidity

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78. but what could escape the alertness of a sense truly guided by love? A transport then like mine was above all consideration, or schemes of surprise; and I, that instant, with the rapidity of the emotions that I felt the spur of, shot into his arms, crying out, as I threw mine round his neck: "My life!

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79. Images, memories, and ideas of the strangest description followed one another with extraordinary rapidity and vividness

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80. improvements, with the best intentions of cleanliness, comfort, and even elegance, but owing to the public that patronizes them, are with astounding rapidity transformed into filthy taverns with a pretension of modern improvement that only makes them worse than the oldfashioned, honestly filthy hotels

81. One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up in his brain that this was only the case in old-fashioned days, and that now with the rapidity of modern progress (he had unconsciously become by now a partisan of every sort of progress) the views of society had changed, and that the question whether they would be received in society was not a foregone conclusion

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82. rapidity and grace which, during the early period of their intimacy, had so fascinated him, but which now so

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83. The rapidity of her movement, her flushed and eager face, everything betrayed that something out of the common was going on in her

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84. Everything in her face, the clearly marked dimples in her cheeks and chin, the line of her lips, the smile which, as it were, fluttered about her face, the brilliance of her eyes, the grace and rapidity of her

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85. with extraordinary rapidity, as happens during moments of excitement; ideas and memories rushed into Darya Alexandrovna’s head

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86. Lidia Ivanovna rapidly ran her eyes over the note, and excusing herself, wrote an answer with extraordinary rapidity, handed it to the man, and came back to the table

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87. Now, as he heard the impossible rapidity of that thunderstorm gunfire, he knew he’d been wrong to doubt

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88. rapidity, and a liveliness he had not shown till then

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89. Nothing more is needed," he declared with the same rapidity and he laid the paper on the table

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90. Then the mirror turns at once and is moved with incredible rapidity

91. To be sure, the listeners about Tipton were not highly gifted! Will talked a good deal himself, but what he said was thrown in with such rapidity, and with such an unimportant air of saying something by the way, that it seemed a gay little chime after the great bell

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92. And Lydgate fell to spinning that web from his inward self with wonderful rapidity, in spite of experience supposed to be finished off with the drama of Laure— in spite too of medicine and biology; for the inspection of macerated muscle or of eyes presented in a dish (like Santa Lucia's), and other incidents of scientific inquiry, are observed to be less incompatible with poetic love than a native dulness or a lively addiction to the lowest prose

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93. On certain days she chatted with feverish rapidity, and this over-excitement was suddenly followed by a state of torpor, in which she remained without speaking, without moving

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94. Happily they were able to run downstairs with sufficient rapidity to be seated at their work when Grandet entered; had he met them under the archway it would have been enough to rouse his suspicions

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95. After the kiss taken in the passage, the hours fled for Eugenie with frightful rapidity

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