Synonyms

1. speed
2. fastness

Sentence Examples

1. I owned that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and comely animals we had that they excelled in strength and swiftness and when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in traveling, racing, or drawing chariots they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet and then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.
2. We would cut them down with terrible swiftness and a hot fury burning in our blood.
3. The swiftness with which the human world moved defied logic.
4. Whenever the eyes of the wearied travelers rose from the decayed leaves over which they trod, his dark form was to be seen glancing among the stems of the trees in front, his head immovably fastened in a forward position, with the light plume on his crest fluttering in a current of air, made solely by the swiftness of his own motion.
5. With an impressive swiftness, their blades whistled through the air.
6. I say, then, that on hearing our answer the youth turned about and made for the place we pointed out to him, leaving us all charmed with his good looks, and wondering at his question and the haste with which we saw him depart in the direction of the sierra and after that we saw him no more, until some days afterwards he crossed the path of one of our shepherds, and without saying a word to him, came up to him and gave him several cuffs and kicks, and then turned to the ass with our provisions and took all the bread and cheese it carried, and having done this made off back again into the sierra with extraordinary swiftness.
7. In this manner many minutes flew by with the swiftness of thought the rifles of the assailants speaking, at times, in rattling volleys, and at others in occasional, scattering shots.
8. Over her shoulder, she stole a glance and watched the swiftness of his hands as he gathered the timber, engrossed in his work.
9. They all agreed that I could not be produced according to the regular laws of nature, because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing of trees, or digging holes in the earth.
10. In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.