go like lightning
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It is essential that he should arrive quite unexpectedly, and come and go like lightning without revealing his identity.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
Didn't I tell you that, once those girls began to go, they would go, like lightning?
From Sunrise by William Black
You see smiles, desires, terror, come and go like lightning; every time the face seems different.
From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Well, I know, if I were a man," said Vera, "I could make some kind of an engine that would go like lightning, and have neither smoke nor cinders.
From Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore by Amy Brooks
And when he gets there, he'll just toss the letter bag to the next man, who is sitting on a fresh horse waiting for it, and away he'll go like lightning.
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