Quickly Sentence Examples

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  • I quickly accessed my options.

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  • The storm passed quickly, but the night remained warm.

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  • I got up, and dressed quickly and ran downstairs.

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  • My wife quickly recovered and smiled.

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  • The world is quickly moving to participatory government.

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  • She ate quickly, looking from his perfect body to her scarred forearms.

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  • She glanced quickly up at Brandon.

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  • The smile dropped as quickly as it had appeared.

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  • They quickly surrounded him and made him their prisoner.

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  • Truly? she said, quickly smoothing her frock and hair.

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  • She can count to thirty very quickly, and can write seven of the square-hand letters and the words which can be made with them.

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  • She glanced quickly at Quint.

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  • Eureka quickly followed him, and soon they were all standing together upon the platform, with eight of the much prized wooden wings beside them.

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  • Then they told him dinner would be served directly and he replied that they could not serve it too quickly to suit his convenience.

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  • The car warmed quickly and she fell asleep again.

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  • He dressed quickly and Traveled to the scene.

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  • They quickly melted into the heat waves again.

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  • A bucket, quickly smelling of excrement, occupied another corner.

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  • He walked quickly, but very quietly, down the pathway into the darker woods.

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  • She obliged quickly, tensing as she waited for him to finish with her phone.

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  • Stepping in quickly, she shut the door.

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  • I asked a few questions and was quickly told to mind my own business.

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  • I moved quickly to it and thankfully, there was a dial tone!

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  • I knew you'd let them come! she said quickly all in one breath.

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  • He let the child fall into the trunk, slammed it and quickly drove away just as the mother was emerging from the house.

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  • The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners with the strict formality of his house.

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  • How quickly I should lock up all these mighty warriors, and hoary sages, and impossible heroes, who are now almost my only companions; and dance and sing and frolic like other girls!

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  • But, don't be uneasy, he added, noticing that the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always a sign of approaching anger.

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  • The sun turned the dunes orange red and then quickly sank, leaving them in pre-moon darkness.

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  • The answer came to her so quickly that it brought a smile to her lips.

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  • They all plainly and certainly knew that they were criminals who must hide the traces of their guilt as quickly as possible.

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  • It is unprecedented for so many nations to change their form of government so quickly and peacefully.

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  • She had no further trouble and filled the string quickly, too quickly, in fact.

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  • She quickly replaced the envelope with shaking hands, making sure it was in exactly the same position as she found it.

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  • My books and pages were rattled off quickly while Martha had pointed to twenty different words listed in a large dictionary.

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  • But it jumped quickly forward and threw Gilbert upon the ground.

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  • So he called together the merry little fairies of his household and, showing them the jars and vases containing his treasures, he bade them carry them to the palace of Santa Claus as quickly as they could.

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  • Frowning and rising quickly, he went up to Wolzogen.

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  • She glanced up quickly, feeling the color deepen in her face.

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  • Jumping from the bed, she dressed quickly and went to the kitchen.

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  • So he quickly finished the shoeing, and the groom hurried to lead the horse to the king.

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  • Turn the carriage quickly, coachman, and drive home.

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  • Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvitski and the neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezukhov.

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  • The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist of early dawn, hundreds of feet splashing through the mud.

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  • Martha handed her the phone and I could tell by the look that quickly appeared on her face, it was not good news.

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  • Mortgages for all of us were quickly processed through a private bank owned by one of Merrill Cooms' entities.

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  • She shed it and her boots quickly, wanting to escape to her room before her father cornered her.

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  • The remaining vacation slipped by quickly and life returned to normal.

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  • Loading it quickly, he watched the skunk from the house for a few minutes.

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  • She walked stiffly to the closet, deciding quickly on a pair of blue jeans and a light shirt with a collar that would hide most of her neck.

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  • I quickly telephoned our benefactor.

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  • Why do you come in without being called? cried Nicholas, quickly changing his attitude.

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  • Then he sprang up quickly and seized it by the tail.

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  • Lead that man away! said he quickly and energetically, and taking the arm of Pierre whom he had promoted to be a Frenchman for saving his life, he went with him into the room.

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  • Without replying, the sergeant, with a resolute air, mounted and rode away with Grekov whose men had quickly assembled.

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  • He turned quickly and saw an eagle rising into the air with his moneybag in its claws.

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  • Its furry tail stood up firm and round as a plume, its bandy legs served it so well that it would often gracefully lift a hind leg and run very easily and quickly on three legs, as if disdaining to use all four.

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  • He glanced away quickly, his features gaining a rosy color.

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  • She learned to knit very quickly, and is making a wash-cloth for her mother.

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  • After talking about the various things that carpenters make, she asked me, "Did carpenter make me?" and before I could answer, she spelled quickly, "No, no, photographer made me in Sheffield."

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  • He took out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the leaf, gave it to Kozlovski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, "Why do they look at me?"

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  • She caught herself quickly.

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  • Then he slipped quickly under the table and hid himself.

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  • The snow was thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages.

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  • Ouh! ouh! came peals of such healthy and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as quickly as possible.

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  • As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position.

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  • He looked at the snowflakes fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family.

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  • And Napoleon went quickly to the door.

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  • One could see that he wished to pass through the rooms as quickly as possible, finish with the bows and greetings, and sit down to business in front of a map, where he would feel at home.

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  • We were in bed and this pillow talk was quickly becoming an argument I didn't want to have.

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  • A few hours ago, my wife was calling Molly's mother Julie a bitch, now, with a quickly appointed kinship, she was her assigned sister!

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  • She walked through the castle quickly, not liking the quiet, and emerged into a courtyard leading to an expansive cobblestone driveway.

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  • He wanted to linger there, feeling her warmth, but she quickly pulled away.

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  • I had to turn away pretty quickly.

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  • Then he began to imagine that the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away.

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  • She stopped and breathed still more quickly, but did not shed tears.

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  • Trap-ta-ta-tap! cracked the shots, now together, now several quickly one after another.

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  • At that moment of emotional tenderness young Nicholas' face, which resembled his father's, affected Pierre so much that when he had kissed the boy he got up quickly, took out his handkerchief, and went to the window.

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  • Martha, who was now displaying her pregnancy, quickly explained.

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  • Please just find him quickly.

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  • Any of our infrequent visitors or friends asking about the operation quickly developed a bleary look when we tried to explain what we did for a living.

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  • I prayed our Delabama killer didn't stalk Agnes Delanco before she or her detectives tracked him down, quickly I hoped.

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  • However, she quickly learned that wasn't Howie's main concern.

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  • The young woman I didn't know cried out but was quickly silenced by my knife.

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  • The others stepped back quickly.

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  • He thought of the redhead, but quickly pushed it away.

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  • She was quiet, thinking quickly.

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  • A few of the gents nodded off but the pastor would quickly bring them back we a raised voice and a fist pound, prompting a hearty Amen.

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  • Will you kill her quickly at least?

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  • She quickly closed her sketchbook and turned to face him with a shocked expression.

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  • She quickly went back downstairs.

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  • When Jessi tripped his senses, he tensed so quickly, he nearly leapt out of his seat.

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  • It was surprising how quickly he made up his mind and put his resolve into execution.

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  • Napoleon turned quickly and began to pace the room.

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  • The cheeseburger was quickly forgotten.

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  • Cynthia asked "They were old cigarettes—not like Patsy smokes," she said and then added quickly, "gotta go."

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  • Yet Jonathan had adjusted quickly to his new family.

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  • So that's why you followed me home so quickly.

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  • Vinnie hadn't been marked because no one knew he'd accompanied the boys, until the twins came out from under their rock the prior weekend and were quickly nabbed and "ques­tioned."

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  • He whis­pered to Dean he was, "in and out quickly, as the expression goes," and heard nothing in the adjoining room.

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  • Just as quickly, a picture of Cynthia Byrne began crowding his mind.

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  • No one can follow the car and beat the pick up to the spot— it happens too quickly.

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  • He watched it for a few minutes and then turned quickly to the right.

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  • She caught sight of the marks and swelling and pulled her hand back quickly, but not fast enough.

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  • Bubbles are quickly disengaged and collect in the / '?

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  • When she is talking with an intimate friend, however, her hand goes quickly to her friend's face to see, as she says, "the twist of the mouth."

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  • Miss Keller does not as a rule read very fast, but she reads deliberately, not so much because she feels the words less quickly than we see then, as because it is one of her habits of mind to do things thoroughly and well.

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  • He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, "So you are still at that silly business!" quickly closed his eye again, and let his head sink still lower.

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  • He urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but the farther he went the more disorganized they were.

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  • Every time he chanced to meet Dolokhov's handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly away.

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  • During the hour Pierre watched them they all came flowing from the different streets with one and the same desire to get on quickly; they all jostled one another, began to grow angry and to fight, white teeth gleamed, brows frowned, ever the same words of abuse flew from side to side, and all the faces bore the same swaggeringly resolute and coldly cruel expression that had struck Pierre that morning on the corporal's face when the drums were beating.

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  • Eventually her attempts to tame him paid off, and he allowed her to touch him - provided she was careful not to move too quickly.

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  • She slid off the counter and straightened too quickly.

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  • You've gained some valuable experience about how things can get out of control so quickly.

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  • In spite of such worldly concerns I barely remember climbing beneath the covers sleep came so quickly.

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  • Under Martha's soothing, near hypnotizing voice, Howie fell asleep quickly.

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  • I said, too quickly.

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  • A lot are cases of runaway or lost and many are children found quickly.

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  • The three of us packed for three days only, as if so limiting our clothing changes would force our return more quickly.

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  • Jule obliged quickly, unwilling to keep the vamp close to his brothers' mates longer than necessary.

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  • She thought one might be Jule, but the energies faded in and out too quickly to tell.

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  • Bianca gave him a disapproving look that quickly melted into a smile.

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  • Jule excused himself quickly from his brothers and trotted after her.

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  • He stood before the low-burning fire, golden eyes swirling as he thought quickly.

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  • He quickly changed her out of her clothes and into one of his own long T-shirts, fearing her clothing would be bugged.

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  • Darian's words haunted him again, and he quickly suppressed the memories.

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  • Han says she's progressing pretty quickly, though since none of us know how to train her, it's hard to tell.

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  • She curled up in a chair, afraid to move too quickly under the tense Guardian's gaze.

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  • Most moved away quickly, sensing there was something about him that just wasn't normal.

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  • She tried not to let it affect her but suspected by his look of satisfaction that he saw how quickly her face changed colors.

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  • I don't mean that in a mean way, Linda said quickly.

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  • He had a secret weapon, but I don't know what it was, she said quickly.

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  • He led her into a small, grey elevator that plunged quickly to the depths beneath the mountain.

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  • He pushed her down and stepped over her, striding quickly to the door.

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  • Quickly, before I kill her!

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  • Snow crunched under her feet and quickly soaked her flimsy slippers.

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  • One thought emerged, fed by urgency that was quickly swallowed by cool magic.

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  • She shuddered and quickly lifted her chin.

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  • The brief pain turned quickly into pleasure intense enough that she began panting, her hands roaming his body.

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  • Deidre whirled and went quickly.

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  • She halted and quickly piled five small stones in an arrow pointing back the way they'd come, then wiped her muddied hands on her jeans.

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  • Dean quickly understood this was no social call.

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  • That's why it bothered me so much when Martha seemed to understand so quickly.

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  • When the dreaded exit occurred, it happened so quickly and unexpectedly that there was no time for proper good-byes—if such biddings exist.

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  • But the smile disappeared quickly when he came face to face, not with Jake Weller, but Lieutenant Fitzgerald.

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  • Randy quickly added, "We're going to get married."

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  • He quickly agreed and the two strolled, for the first time since Christmas, to St. Daniel's Catholic Church, a few blocks away.

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  • While Cynthia might not have "come to terms" with her quickly acquired family, she was positively thrilled to announce the wedding to all who'd listen, skirting the impending birth like a ballet dancer, concentrating on lace and promises, even if the color was off-white.

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  • Her words were a bucket of water on a fire, so quickly they extinguished the blazing tempers.

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  • Their offer was quickly accepted.

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  • Water seeped from the opening, spreading out in a sticky ooze that was quickly eaten by the thirsty ground.

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  • They moved more quickly, retracing their steps toward the entrance.

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  • It was strange how quickly the trials and fears of the day could be put on the back burner with a couple of swigs of amber liquid.

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  • She quickly added, "I'll pay you."

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  • Jennifer Radisson, in spite of her height and eye catching blonde hair, was quickly lost in the happy crowd that clogged the sidewalks.

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  • Her reverie passed quickly and she seemed embarrassed by it.

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  • The attorney quickly recovered and half slid, half ran down the slope next to his Jeep where they were standing, covering his shiny black shoes with dust in the process and nearly falling on the seat of his creased shorts.

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  • He said it too quickly.

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  • Darkness moved in quickly now, and he knew he'd soon need help and more light than a simple flashlight to locate a wreck, if in fact a vehicle had plunged to the valley floor, a hundred or more feet below.

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  • His eye caught something off to the side, but it was quickly gone as the darkness returned.

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  • I think so, but she began asking questions so quickly she didn't give me time to ask.

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  • Groucho quickly moved on, describing what happened.

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  • Cynthia answered but quickly motioned for Dean to pick up the extension.

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  • That was a stupid thing the state did, putting her back with her mother so quickly.

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  • The five remaining death-dealers he brought with him were quickly extracting souls.

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  • She stared at him and sat up quickly.

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  • He cured my human side, brought the deity side back, and joined our souls, she replied a little too quickly.

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  • Gabriel took a moment to breathe deeply, unsettled by how quickly his assassins were falling.

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  • Gabriel chuckled and kissed her quickly again before she was able to object.

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  • May I do so quickly?

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  • Me, she corrected quickly.

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  • Any pain she caused was going to be short lived and quickly fixed, when she revealed herself to Gabriel once more and told him they could be together.

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  • Was he the reason Alex had hopped on the phone so quickly, and was he the person Alex had been meeting, not Lori?

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  • Even the doctor had no idea if or how quickly he would return to normal.

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  • It quickly returned to hers and then he smiled.

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  • Maybe Alex would have recovered more quickly if he had been there from the start.

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  • Closing her eyes, she leaned back, quickly sucking in a breath as his warm hands moved inside her dress and gently surrounded her waist.

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  • Katie said something to Alex and he glanced quickly at Carmen.

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  • For the first time, Destiny warmed quickly to someone.

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  • She opened the door and closed it quickly.

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  • It came quickly this time.

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  • Stepping quickly onto the patio, she was able to make out the shapes of tall pine trees.

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  • Gabriel slowed his movements, quickly overwhelmed by the voices.

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  • Rhyn recovered quickly and tossed them both clothing.

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  • Deidre whirled, startled at how quickly he appeared.

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  • Deidre dropped her hand quickly from the knotted skin, alarm pulsing through her.

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  • She faced the door, mind working quickly.

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  • Death's hand hovered over the pages, and she turned them quickly without touching them.

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  • Katie grabbed her purse and walked quickly down a pristine hall to a placard that read Officer David.

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  • The unease passed quickly as he saw which death dealer stood before him.

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  • She wriggled back into her room, mind working quickly.

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  • Lankha's cool magic worked quickly.

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  • She dressed quickly to avoid comments on either her collar or her scars and flung herself into her bunk, reminded of her cell with Lankha.

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  • At his sharp tone, she quickly changed the subject, saying, "After the meeting, I have to go."

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  • If anything, he was stunned she agreed so quickly.

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  • She changed quickly into dry clothing before hurrying down the back stairwell.

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  • Katie moved quickly through the room, refusing to meet the gaze of any of the Immortals.

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  • Is quickly an option, if it.s all I can do?

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  • He clenched his fists, not wanting to think about Sasha or Kris or how quickly he, too, could have the tables turned on him as he had done to Sasha.

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  • How quickly you found a safe place, Jade replied.

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  • The wound healed itself quickly.

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  • Sasha.s guard fell quickly, and Jade hacked at the Ancient with all his fury until Sasha lay in a bloodied heap.

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  • Katie moved quickly in the direction she indicated and found a line in front of the guestbook as Immortals wrote their names.

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  • He gathered the tools of the trade, weapons for killing quickly this time, and stepped through the portal to the shadow world.

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  • The next two days passed quickly as Kiera helped Evelyn set up her sudden wedding.

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  • Evelyn was upset at what was being said, emotions crossing her face quickly.

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  • Perhaps, if Romas kept the spiders away and Evelyn could make the days pass quickly, she might survive her visit.

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  • Evelyn asked, eyes on her face as she exited quickly.

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  • She ducked into the room and whirled to push it closed just as quickly.

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  • She'd never seen men that big move so quickly, even when watching professional wrestling.

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  • His woman was speaking too quickly for the translator to keep up.

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  • He'd spoken to his sisters in depth and learned quickly just how different she was, their tales ranging from those that ought to anger him to those that amused him.

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  • She grew bolder quickly.

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  • As quickly as the computer tossed a challenge before her, she countered and matched it.

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  • She tugged her hand free to turn the page quickly.

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  • She rose quickly in response from her place kneeling at the small table.

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  • The warriors moved and shifted as one, and she backpedaled quickly out of their paths as they exited the dwelling.

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  • The momentary pause of the space battle quickly turned to chaos, and Mansr was struggling to outmaneuver the ships darting away from the planet.

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  • As he watched, spellbound, she revolved toward him, but he quickly closed his eyes lest he look upon her once beautiful face.

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  • Not Henry Whitcomb-vivid, Dean added quickly, referring to his involvement in a strange mystery before they married.

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  • Though Dean wished to remain at hand's-length from her troubled life he quickly sensed from her disjointed description Cynthia had been correct when she assessed that the woman carried serious emotional pain.

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  • If this husband of hers is abusive and traced her charge slip to Bird Song that quickly, he means business.

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  • Any activity ten thousand feet in the sky quickly separated the properly trained from the panting wannabes.

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  • He was quickly measured and fitted and rejoined the others, relieved of a few more dollars.

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  • He always made sure one of the adults was close by, but his youth and a natural sense of balance helped him to catch on to the sport quickly.

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  • We'll work as quickly as possible but this is an important and serious investigation.

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  • The others followed quickly.

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  • She quickly added, Not for Claire's sake certainly, but for Annie Quincy.

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  • But we came up so quickly!

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  • The two stayed together through the years, even attempting to be lovers once, though they quickly realized theirs was a relationship of brother and sister.

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  • His throat quickly cooled and his head quieted.

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  • Luckily, they were the only ones in the lobby, so quickly obtained a room.

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  • She sat stunned as he quickly dressed.

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  • We realized very quickly we had made a grave mistake, and I don't even like to think about it.

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  • When he focused on her she quickly averted her eyes.

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  • He came back with a bag quickly.

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  • On three occasions, he merely influenced his victims, quickly fed, and made them forget him.

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  • He grinned innocently thinking, Things are going to get back to normal here pretty quickly.

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  • Werewolves age very quickly until puberty, then the process slows exponentially.

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  • She kissed him quickly.

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  • Sarah had pouted for a bit about not being able to wear her rings, but recovered quickly.

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  • He quickly regretted sitting there rather than a chair.

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  • He called for Sarah, who quickly appeared at the top of the stairs with Connor.

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  • Once there, she dropped her head to Jackson's lap and quickly fell asleep.

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  • She quickly said, "Right, not my wedding, whatever you guys want."

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  • She sang directly to Sarah and the tears started to flow quickly.

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  • Blue eyes flashed in a face staining quickly with red.

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  • The coup door swung open and Alex assessed the situation quickly.

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  • They quickly switched places and Carmen checked the kid.

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  • If that were the case, his attitude would change quickly enough when he held his first baby.

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  • Warmth flooded her entire body so quickly that it was almost painful.

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  • Her breath came quickly as she leaned back into his hands.

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  • She moved too quickly and the stallion snorted.

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  • Lana programmed her micro quickly to mirror the messages and set it to work decrypting the encoding.

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  • She began testing them quickly with her micro.

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  • It moved silently and quickly down the winding road through the forest.

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  • She pulled it on quickly, and studied the marks on her face.

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  • Her hands began trembling, and she moved quickly to put one of the chairs in the living room between them.

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  • In the expected war with Poland, which followed quickly, the Russians were so successful that the arrangement was upheld; but it was soon found that the Cossacks, though they professed unbounded devotion to the Orthodox tsar, disliked Muscovite, quite as much as Polish, interference in their internal affairs, and some of their leaders were in favour of substituting federation with Poland for annexation by Russia.

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  • But he was quickly recalled to Bavaria, Munich being threatened at once by an Austrian and a French army.

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  • Spent with weakness and fatigue he asked leave to rest his head on his companion's lap, and quickly fell into a quiet sleep. As Niccolini tells us, the martyr's face became serene and smiling as a child's.

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  • Quickly attaining a prominent position among the Frankish nobles, he appears as rector of the abbey of Marmoutier in 852, and as one of Charles the Bald's missi dominici, in 853; but soon afterwards he was among those who rebelled against Charles, and invited the king's halfbrother, Louis the German, to invade West Francia.

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  • The Scots were surprised in their bivouacs, but quickly formed up, and at first repulsed both the horse and the foot.

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  • Called to office after disaster had driven Turkey's forces from Hungary and Poland and her fleets from the Mediterranean, he began by ordering strict economy and reform in the taxation; himself setting the example, which was widely followed, of voluntary contributions for the army, which with the navy he reorganized as quickly as he could.

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  • Under the Normans the power of the Roman Church quickly augmented, tithes were granted, and ecclesiastical buildings erected and endowed.

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  • Early in the 'forties the Frenchman Botta, quickly followed by Sir Henry Layard, began making excavations on the site of ancient Nineveh, the name and fame of which were a tradition having scarcely more than mythical status.

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  • Vieta's writings thus became very quickly known; but, when Franciscus van Schooten issued a general edition of his works in 1646, he failed to make a complete collection, although probably nothing of very great value has perished.

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  • On the night of the 5th of February the transit began, the cavalry leading the way through the snow-covered ice, which quickly thawed beneath the horses' hoofs so that the infantry which followed after had to wade through half an ell of sludge, fearing every moment lest the rotting ice should break beneath their feet.

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  • The rubber stopper is removed and the experimental substance introduced, and the stopper quickly replaced to the same extent as before.

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  • It was useless to attempt to avenge this disaster, which occurred on the 15th of August 778, for the enemy disappeared as quickly as he came; the incident has passed from the domain of history into that of legend and romance, being associated by tradition with the pass of Roncesvalles.

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  • The importance of the osmotic pressure of sea-water in biology will be easily understood from the fact that a frog placed in sea-water loses water by exosmosis and soon becomes 20% lighter than its original weight, while a true salt-water fish suddenly transferred to fresh water gains water by endosmosis, swells up and quickly succumbs.

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  • Of this step she quickly repented.

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  • It may also be rendered visible if a smooth block of free-burning coal is allowed to burn away quickly in an open fire, when the ash remains in thin grey or yellow bands on the surface of the block.

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  • To guard against this it is now customary to use some speed-checking appliance, independent of the engine-man, which reduces or entirely cuts off the steam supply when the cage arrives at a particular point near the surface, and applies the brake if the load is travelling too quickly.

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  • The son of a noted warrior, he quickly rose to supreme power, becoming sultan or amir in 1525.

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  • Though goldfinches may occasionally be observed in the coldest weather, incomparably the largest number leave Britain in autumn, returning in spring, and resorting to gardens and orchards to breed, when the lively song of the cock, and the bright yellow wings of both sexes, quickly attract notice.

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  • The imposition of these taxes was bitterly resented in the colonies, where it quickly crystallized public opinion round the principle of " No taxation without representation."

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  • He was quickly promoted to a divisional command, and then made a lieutenant-general.

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  • His first care was to establish his authority over some districts east of the Elbe; and quickly making himself independent of the king, he stood forth as the representative of the Saxon race.

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  • As a counterstroke, however, Conrad of Hohenstaufen, the brother of Frederick, was chosen German king in December 1127, and was quickly recognized in northern Italy.

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  • The success of his sketch for the picture of the "Oath of the Tennis Court," and his pronounced republicanism, secured David's election to the Convention in September 1792, by the Section du Museum, and he quickly distinguished himself by the defence of two French artists in Rome who had fallen into the merciless hands of the Inquisition.

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  • The detachment was quickly forced to retire on its supports at the cross-roads, but here Prince Bernard firmly held his position; and by his skilful use of cover and the high standing corn he prevented the French gauging the weakness of the small force that barred their way.

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  • But, with the exception of these two battalions, the French army was quickly transformed into a flying rabble.

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  • These qualities, joined to a natural military instinct developed by much study and backed by a powerful ambition, marked him out early and brought him very quickly to the front.

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  • The jury quickly agreed on a verdict of not guilty, and the acquittal was greeted by the populace with shouts of triumph.

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  • He was ordained about 1605, and in 161o he preached before King James I., whose favour he quickly gained by his love of compromise.

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  • Extremely well suited for sheep-farming, the natural pastures of the country were quickly parcelled out into huge pastoral crown leases, held by prosperous licensees, the squatters, who in many cases aspired to become a country gentry by turning their leases into freeholds.

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  • He endeavoured to illustrate the subject by a clavecin oculaire, or ocular harpsichord; but the treatise and the illustration were quickly forgotten.

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  • His policy of gaining time had received a severe blow in the failure of his executive officer to realize it, and that officer, though his unpursued troops quickly regained their moral, had himself completely lost confidence.

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  • His long experience, his wide reading and his thorough knowledge of all sorts and conditions of men, enabled him to act quickly at a time of crisis, but his important speeches, or a course of political action that might be far-reaching in its effect, were not cast into their final form without careful consultation with the best advisers he could obtain.

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  • But just as quickly as they showed themselves ready to do this, did they also always break their promises, so that one could not really say which of these two courses may truly have been easier to them, and from the beginning of the war scarcely a year passed without bringing such change of mind."

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  • Lothair quickly made himself independent, defeated Henry at Welfesholz in 1115, and prosecuted the war against the Sla y s with vigour.

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  • Baker then described the results of experiments on repetition of stress, and added that " hundreds of existing bridges which carry twenty trains a day with perfect safety would break down quickly under twenty trains an hour.

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  • The activity of the central boards as purchasers in neutral countries did not last long; it came quickly to an end in 1915, especially after Italy's entry into the war.

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  • The princess was accordingly roused, and quickly came downstairs in a dressing-gown, her fair hair flowing loose over her shoulders.

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  • The appalling austerities, however, to which she was allowed to subject herself quickly affected her mental and bodily health.

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  • Under the pseudonym George Taylor he wrote several historical romances, especially Antinous (1880), which quickly ran through five editions, and is the story of a soul "which courted death because the objective restraints of faith had been lost."

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  • He continued to show the same zeal and severity as before, and with so much success that Lord Clarendon, writing in his praise, expressed the opinion that "if Bancroft had lived, he would quickly have extinguished all that fire in England which had been kindled at Geneva."

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  • When Newcastle was shut up in York, Lucas and the cavalry remained in the open country, and when Rupert's relieving army crossed the mountains into Yorkshire he was quickly joined by Newcastle's squadrons.

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  • King John Casimir, betrayed and abandoned by his own subjects, fled .to Silesia, and profiting by the cataclysm which, for the moment, had swept the Polish state out of existence, the Muscovites, unopposed, quickly appropriated nearly everything which was not already occupied by the Swedes.

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  • His power now quickly abandoned him.

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  • Burr established a thorough patrol system, rigorously enforced martial law, and quickly restored order.

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  • In September 1839 a 3-foot speculum was finished and mounted on an altazimuth stand similar to Herschel's; but, though the definition of the images was good (except that the diffraction at the joints of the speculum caused minute rays in the case of a very bright star), and its peculiar skeleton form allowed the speculum to follow atmospheric changes of temperature very quickly, Lord Rosse decided to cast a solid 3-foot speculum.

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  • In 1791 two "representatives on mission" informed the Convention of the disquieting condition of Vendee, and this news was quickly followed by the exposure of a royalist plot organized by the marquis de la Rouerie.

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  • Cholera and typhoid organisms are less resistant, and are killed more quickly than tubercle bacilli at the above temperatures.

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