Thesaurus / pronto
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Just as the q-b was working up to the rage I had at last calmed down from, appeared the shawl-swathed girl announcing "Pronto!"
SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCE“Al suo comodo è pronto,” she said, referring to the dinner, and hurried away again to dish up the veal cutlets.
OLIVE IN ITALYMORAY DALTON"Give you nothin', except a dose of lead, if you don't git out pronto," snarled the man.
PLUCK ON THE LONG TRAILEDWIN L. SABINHe certainly did assimilate my advice and drag it out of town muy pronto.
THE PRIDE OF PALOMARPETER B. KYNEUnderstand, if you ketch anybody cantelopin' around a-foot, you just ride 'em off the range pronto.
OVERLAND REDHENRY HERBERT KNIBBSNo greaser can git biggity an' shoot up our friends without hangin' from the end of a wagon-tongue pronto.
OH, YOU TEX!WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEYoung Pronto went to one corner and then the other, shaking hands with the principals and dropping down out of the ring.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS AND OTHER STORIESJACK LONDONAquella palabra fu para m lo que sera para un viejo ciego de nacimiento ver de pronto el sol en toda su refulgencia.
NOVELAS CORTASPEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCN(p57) Anduvimos en silencio algunos minutos, hasta que el minero se par de pronto.
NOVELAS CORTASPEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCNPues ver V. qu pronto le pruebo yo a todo el mundo, sin moverme de aqu, que esas calabazas se han criado en mi huerta!
NOVELAS CORTASPEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCNWORDS RELATED TO PRONTO
- PDQ
- accelerated
- active
- agile
- blue streak
- breakneck
- brisk
- chop-chop
- dashing
- double-time
- electric
- expeditious
- expeditive
- flashing
- fleet
- fleeting
- flying
- hairtrigger
- hasty
- hot
- hurried
- hypersonic
- in a jiffy
- in nothing flat
- lickety split
- like a bat out of hell
- like all get out
- like crazy
- like mad
- nimble
- on the double
- posthaste
- presto
- pronto
- quick
- racing
- rapid
- ready
- screamin'
- snap
- snappy
- speedball
- supersonic
- swift
- velocious
- winged
- PDQ
- accelerated
- active
- agile
- blue streak
- breakneck
- brisk
- chop-chop
- dashing
- double-time
- electric
- expeditious
- expeditive
- flashing
- fleet
- fleeting
- flying
- hairtrigger
- hasty
- hot
- hurried
- hypersonic
- in a jiffy
- in nothing flat
- lickety split
- like a bat out of hell
- like all get out
- like crazy
- like mad
- nimble
- on the double
- posthaste
- presto
- pronto
- quick
- racing
- rapid
- ready
- screamin'
- snap
- snappy
- speedball
- supersonic
- swift
- velocious
- winged
- PDQ
- abrupt
- agile
- brash
- breakneck
- brief
- brisk
- careless
- cursory
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- fiery
- fleet
- fleeting
- foolhardy
- harefooted
- headlong
- heedless
- hurried
- ill-advised
- impatient
- impetuous
- impulsive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- madcap
- on the double
- passing
- perfunctory
- precipitate
- prompt
- pronto
- quick
- quickened
- quickie
- rapid
- rash
- reckless
- rushed
- short
- slambang
- slapdash
- snappy
- sudden
- superficial
- swift
- thoughtless
- urgent
- PDQ
- anon
- at short notice
- away
- directly
- double-time
- forthwith
- hereupon
- in a New York minute
- in a flash
- in a jiffy
- in nothing flat
- instantaneously
- instanter
- instantly
- like now
- now
- now or never
- on the dot
- on the double
- on the spot
- promptly
- pronto
- rapidly
- right now
- shortly
- soon
- soon afterward
- straight away
- straight off
- summarily
- thereupon
- this instant
- this minute
- tout de suite
- unhesitatingly
- urgently
- without delay
- without hesitation
- PDQ
- any more
- at once
- at the moment
- at this moment
- at this time
- away
- directly
- first off
- forthwith
- here and now
- immediately
- in a minute
- in a moment
- in nothing flat
- instanter
- instantly
- just now
- like now
- momentarily
- nowadays
- on the double
- promptly
- pronto
- right away
- right now
- soon
- straightaway
- these days
- this day
- today
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