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fleetness
noun as in haste
Example Sentences
One waits at the bottom of a field, while his partner quarters the ground with the arrowy fleetness of a swallow.
I knew then that Owen had had a narrow escape, and but for the fleetness of foot of Evan he would surely have been slain.
Among his other gubernatorial accomplishments was a remarkable fleetness of foot.
The latter being promised a liberal reward, bounded away with the fleetness of a deer, and quickly vanished in the gloom.
She called her wild steed to her side, and, plucking these flowers to test his fleetness, sprang upon him and flew hither.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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