"Travel rapidly" Quotes from Famous Books
... disappeared. And hence, though the few trees along the road had only put forth their first leaves, tender and flaccid as butterfly's wings, the grass was ready to be cut down and was thickly starred with wild flowers. Horace of old said that one could not travel rapidly along the Appian Way, on account of the number and variety of its objects of interest; and the same remark holds good at the present day. It would take months to go over in detail all its wonderful relics of the past. At every step you are arrested by ... — Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan
... a light coach and four good horses. The road will be heavy with snow, and we must be prepared to travel rapidly." ... — The Touchstone of Fortune • Charles Major |