swiftness

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His harness was of red leather, and each broad crimson rein bore certain words embroidered: on the one "A Straight Quarrel is Soonest Mended "; on the other, "Who Will Dare Learns Swiftness."

From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

But the Shoes of Swiftness flew too fast for them, and at last their cries and the rattle of their wings died away as he crossed the great river that runs round the world.

From The Blue Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

Tho' these three Sorts of Surprize require a certain Point of Swiftness, the first needs the most, having no other Support; but the two others have the Advantage of having disorder'd the Enemy.

From The Art of Fencing The Use of the Small Sword by Mahon, Andrew

For he could not carry his bride through the air, so he took the Shoes of Swiftness, and the Cap of Darkness, and the Sword of Sharpness up to a lonely place in the hills.

From The Blue Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

Swiftness and power by birth are thine, From thy great fire they came, thy fire the word divine.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus