Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life, as vivid as one of Norton's "Marines" strung upon a simple thread of narrative...
...that, no matter from what side we approach the matter, we fail to see why a university which has been making such rapid strides as Harvard towards a thoroughly non-sectarian and national position should suddenly pause and devote large sums of money, sorely needed in other fields, to the cultivation, for the benefit of one sect, of a study which is already abundantly provided for by the various Christian churches...
...first hundred yards was on even terms with Livingstone, who had been pulling 36. Opposite Regatta Point, an eighth of a mile from the start, Goddard's supporters began to call on him for a spurt, and he responded with a slightly more rapid stroke, and began to draw away from his rival, whom he led by a length and a half at the quarter-mile stake...
TRINITY seems to be suffering from the same complaints with which Harvard was afflicted not long ago. The Tablet bewails the decorating mania in the Sophomore class which has prompted them to adorn one of the college buildings. Another editorial mourns over the rapid decrease in the number of those who sing at Chapel...
...rapid succession, fly by single sleds, managed by foreign-looking individuals, and murmurs of "Sapristi," "Corpo di Bacco," "Mein Gott in Himmel," float mistily in the air. One only comes to grief, - his course is peculiar, curve after curve; at last he curved too much an I made an excavation in a snow-bank...