suddenness

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Suddenness and sharpness also are among the trifles of life I had had to forego.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

But, as I was saying, the simple imaginative Mind may have its rewards in the repetition of its own silent Working coming continually on the Spirit with a fine Suddenness.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

Suddenness, world-wide destructiveness, were the characteristics of geological changes.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various

Suddenness of the lesion appears to be, then, the essential element common to all cases of apoplexy from organic brain disease.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Fig. 13.—Influence of Suddenness on the Efficiency of Stimulus The curves a, b, c, d, are responses to vibrations of the same amplitude, 30°.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir