Rapidity

For most, this rapidity is a problem, or an excuse. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But this rapidity is not important for the final distribution. ❋ Unknown (1965)

I am glad to think that Canada has recovered with so much rapidity from the effects of war. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Here, however, the sale is increased in rapidity more than a third. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Flying with rapidity from the hills of Media to the marshes of the ❋ Unknown (1206)

In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The frequency of the waves, the rapidity, that is, with which wave follows wave, depends on the size and proximity of the plates and on the length and form of the coil which connects them. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

+ While the Byzantine Empire was at its zenith, the new faith of Islam was conquering Western Asia and the Mediterranean lands with a fiery rapidity, which is one of the marvels of history. ❋ Unknown (1890)

This temper of mind would, in all things, have made him act with that rapidity, which is rashness with the weak, and decision with the strong. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Speed in photography is described as the rapidity with which a sensitized surface is acted on by light, usually expressed by a number. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He looked at Esther and Lucien as he spoke, then he took advantage of the general dismay to vanish with the utmost rapidity, meaning to run home without waiting for the coach. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Three months 'practice ashore has made them nearly perfect in the management of their guns, and they themselves would be the first to admit that, at any rate in that part of the gunnery that was not learnt on board ship, such as rapidity of fire under their present altered conditions and mobility, they have improved twofold since they first landed. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

They are all decorated in the most elegant and refined manner, but their paintings are hastening to decay with a rapidity which is grievous to behold. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Had not the English been brought into the vast arena, either a number of powerful monarchies would have been formed, or the whole country would have passed under some new dynasty, which would have revived the power of the state with that rapidity which is so often exhibited in the East, when new and able men assume the reins of government. ❋ Various (N/A)

And that idea is changing with a rapidity which is startling. ❋ Robert J. C. Stead (1919)

Numbers 403 and 407, though they were born in the same litter and were alike in appearance and in conditions of life, acquired the white-black habit with a difference in rapidity which is expressed by the indices of modifiability 50 and 100. ❋ Robert M. Yerkes (1916)

In an hour every cloud and fog-bank had been dispersed with a rapidity which is seen only in the hill country. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The township one day was profoundly moved by the information, which passed with the rapidity which is only possible for gossip in a small community, that the schoolmaster had been struck down and lay dying. ❋ G. Firth Scott (1900)