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Belt along   /bɛlt əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
Belt along

verb
1.
Move fast.  Synonyms: bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it.  "The cars raced down the street"






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"Belt along" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1625-1660 in Virginia history is an important one for the study of the fission-fusion process in America. During those years Virginia's population increased perhaps twenty-five or thirty fold, and the settlements spread from a thin belt along the James River to the whole of Tidewater Virginia. Human atoms were propelled outwards in every direction in an uncontrolled ...
— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn

... night being a dark one. It is not likely so to continue: for, before entering into the timber, she glances up to the sky, and sees that the cloud canopy has broken; here and there stars scintillating in the blue spaces between. While, on the farther edge of the plantation clearing, a brighter belt along the horizon foretells the ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid



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