"Rapidness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and observe, if I could, how the sets of the tide or currents lay, when the flood came in, that I might judge whether, if I was driven one way out, I might not expect to be driven another way home, with the same rapidness of the currents. This thought was no sooner in my head, but I cast my eye upon a little hill which sufficiently overlooked the sea both ways, and from whence I had a clear view of the currents, or sets ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe |
