go like the wind
Example Sentences
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He seemed to come and go like the wind, without asking why or whither.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
You see parties as takes Hansoms wants to go like the wind, and he ain't got wind enough, for he ain't so young as he once was.
From At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Once on my back we will go like the wind to the king's palace.'
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
He tooted it raucously, and then continued: "They say some of 'em can go like the wind."
From Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
Then it was that he would go like the wind, through utter darkness, through storm and flood and over an icy earth, without a pause or a misstep.
From Round Anvil Rock A Romance by Nancy Huston Banks