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Example sentences for "fleetness"

Lexicographically close words:
fleetest; fleeth; fleeting; fleetingly; fleetly; fleets; fleg; flensing; flesch; flesche
  1. Bess united all the fire and gentleness, the strength and hardihood, the abstinence and endurance of fatigue of the one, with the spirit and extraordinary fleetness of the other.

  2. We feel as if his fleetness and boundless impulses were for the moment our own.

  3. His deftness with his primitive weapons was no less remarkable than his fleetness of foot.

  4. The superior fleetness of Ned held him slightly in advance of his companion.

  5. He became the greatest of spearmen, and on the mountain with the Centaur he gained in strength and in fleetness of foot.

  6. But Polydoros had gone in this day, trusting to his fleetness of foot to escape with his life.

  7. The third task appointed by Eurystheus was the capture of the golden-horned, brazen-footed stag of Cerynea, whose fleetness was such that he seemed scarcely to touch the ground.

  8. But all her fleetness could not save her: she was overtaken, and borne away to the inaccessible regions of snow and ice, where he detained her, and made her his wife.

  9. His fleetness of foot, his skill with bow and rifle, his personal daring and prowess, his quickness and strength, his comeliness of face and form, were dwelt upon and pictured in the most glowing language.

  10. But such is its extraordinary fleetness and wind that a single horse has no possible chance of outrunning it, or tiring it down; and the hunters are therefore obliged to resort to stratagem.

  11. Gertrude, starting to her feet, and bounding forward with the fleetness of a deer.

  12. Rose snatched Charley from the floor and darted through the open door, with the fleetness of a deer; not weary now; strong to bear any thing, every thing but that coarse, cruel taunt.

  13. Hercules pursued the stag for many miles, but was unable to overtake it until he drove it into the cold regions of the north, where its fleetness was hindered by the great drifts and the ice-covered ground.

  14. Yoked unto that car were steeds white as silver of the fleecy clouds, and born in the region of the Gandharvas, and decked with golden harness, and resembling in fleetness the wind or the mind.

  15. Endued with great strength, the child also acquired the knowledge of counteracting the weapons hurled at him by others, and great lightness of hand and fleetness of motion forward and backward and transverse and wheeling.

  16. One day they saw in the woods a strong deer, the leader of a herd, whom, however, they could not seize for his fleetness and strength.

  17. The mind is usually compared in its fleetness with the winds, and therefore the task of the breezes is imposed upon the thoughts, which are as vagaries unless they answer one's purposes).

  18. John Ferguson advanced a few steps towards the man with the object of leading him to their temporary abode; but the maniac warned him off by a wave of the hand, and darted off again into the settling obscurity with the fleetness of an arrow.

  19. Baltimore was even then, the reader will recollect, famed for the fleetness of her vessels.

  20. His taking the plain pathway to the hill-top made his escape depend upon his fleetness of foot, but only for a short distance; the hill once surmounted, a dense forest spread for miles along the route which he had to pursue.

  21. And Maghavat, together with those Gandharvas and Apsaras that have come there, applauded the fleetness of Partha's hand.

  22. The regiment of the Grand Duke Constantine, who gallantly led the Russians, was now annihilated and the duke only escaped by the fleetness of his horse.

  23. The Archduke Charles was only indebted for his safety to the fleetness of his horse, when darkness at length compelled the victors to halt.

  24. Their activity and fleetness surpassed what we had expected from this noble animal in his savage state.

  25. We had opportunities of seeing it run with the antelope; and appearances sanctioned the belief, that in fleetness it even exceeded that extraordinary animal, famed for swiftness, and for the singularity of its horns.

  26. Time passed, and the white cub was no longer a cub but a grown wolf, unexcelled for fleetness of foot and strength of muscle.

  27. Beneath them, at the end of a glade, couched a herd of deer, which started off at sight of the intruders, and made him envy their freedom and fleetness as he followed them in thought to their solitudes.

  28. Reddy Ray was a hard and timely batter, and when he got on base his wonderful fleetness made him almost sure to score.

  29. Almost it seemed that with his marvellous fleetness he was beating the ball to the plate.

  30. My plan was to ride on with Dthemetri to Suez as rapidly as the fleetness of the beasts would allow, and to let Mysseri (who was still weak from the effects of his late illness) come quietly on with the camels and baggage.

  31. The fleetness and endurance of this creature are extraordinary.

  32. The Queen's animals were like spirits of the air, with such amazing fleetness and sureness of foot did they shoot over the surface of the earth.

  33. That we might not be too much in the rear of all, we put our horses to their speed, which then, with the fleetness of wind, bore us to the outer gates of the palace.

  34. She was mounted upon her far-famed white Numidian, for power an elephant, for endurance a dromedary, for fleetness a very Nicoean, and who had been her companion in all the battles by which she had gained her renown and her empire.

  35. My father charged us to keep a watchful look-out for Indians, and should we see any in the distance, either to hide ourselves or to trust to the fleetness of our steeds, rather than risk an encounter.

  36. All we could do was to trust to the fleetness of our steeds and endeavour to reach the fort before they should overtake us.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleetness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deftness; haste; speed; velocity