"Speedy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Virgil, wishing them a speedy deliverance, requested them to spew the best way of going up to the next circle. Who it was that answered him could not be discerned, on account of their all being so bent down; but a voice gave them ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... developing solution, it is necessary to blow upon the glass, is informed that it is not necessary; but that, when there is a hesitation in the flowing of the fluid, blowing gently on the glass promotes it, and the warmth of the breath sometimes causes a more speedy development. ...
— Notes and Queries, No. 181, April 16, 1853 • Various
... all I think of you, and I will take an opportunity of reminding him of you. But we must we patient. Adieu, my dear friend; we must set off speedily, and Heaven knows when we shall be back again!" I wished him a successful campaign and a speedy return. Alas! I was doomed to see my excellent friend ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
... were thoroughly frightened at the mere sight of the white giant of whom they had heard such terrible stories, turned and hastened back in the direction from which they had come, leaving the man to what seemed must be a speedy ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... desolate—left almost alone in the world [2]—I had but you, and H., and M., and let me enjoy the survivors whilst I can. Poor M., in his letter of Friday, speaks of his intended contest for Cambridge, and a speedy journey to London. Write or come, but come if you can, ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero
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