Fleet Foot

As is aforesaid she was as fleet-foot as a deer, so but in a little space of time she had come to the creek, and leapt into the boat, panting and breathless. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wherefore she turned and went hastily down the hall, and out-a-doors, and over the bridge, and ran fleet-foot down the rocky way whereby she had come, till she could run no further, and lay down under a great stone breathless and fordone; yet her heart upheld her and suffered her not to swoon, belike because she had given her limbs such hard work to do. ❋ Unknown (2007)

O see the fleet-foot host of men, who march with faces drawn, ❋ Unknown (1958)

Or as the fleet-foot roe that ’s tir’d with chasing, ❋ Unknown (1914)

"'Tis I, fleet-foot, winged messenger, humble slave," laughed Louis, with another grotesque bow; but the rogue had cleverly put himself between the squaw and Miriam's tent. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Ah yes, the fleet-foot vision that ever eludes me! ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)

No one of the felons was nimble enough to escape from the fleet-foot hunters of Burgdale, and they were all slain there to the number of eleven. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Wherefore she turned and went hastily down the hall, and out-a - doors, and over the bridge, and ran fleet-foot down the rocky way whereby she had come, till she could run no further, and lay down under a great stone breathless and fordone; yet her heart upheld her and suffered her not to swoon, belike because she had given her limbs such hard work to do. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Conquer the fleet-foot doe with slot-tracks smoking and burning. ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)

Or as the fleet-foot roe that's tired with chasing, ❋ Unknown (1592)

Birdalone cried aloud with joy, and hastened toward the semblance, but came to it no nigher, and still she went, and the semblance still escaped her, and she followed on and on; and this lasted long, and faster and faster must she follow lest it vanish, and she gathered her skirts into her girdle, and fell to running fleet-foot after the fleeing shadow, which she loved dearly even amidst the jaws of death; and all her fleetness of foot had Birdalone to put forth in following up the chase; but even to die in the pain would she not miss that dear shadow. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rowney looked up from shoveling snow and said, “Boy, you better fleet-foot it as fast as you can, because if Bloodspiller gets hold of you, you’ll be sorry.” ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Or as the fleet-foot roe that’s tir’d with chasing, ❋ Unknown (2004)