"Fleetly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her, in happy play caressing Thee, my dolorous heart awhile deliver! 10 . . . . . . . . I would joy, as of old the maid rejoiced Racing fleetly, the golden apple eyeing, Late-won loosener of ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus
... ran fleetly up-stairs to her own sitting-room. The children were in bed, and there was no one to see her as she drew her writing-case ...
— A Bachelor's Dream • Mrs. Hungerford
... turned and looked out into the desert and got to his feet, but his hand did not go to his hip pocket as he watched something which came running fleetly ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... her wonderful career. The children of the village, says the seneschal, were running races and leaping in wild joy about the fields; possibly their gladness was caused by the unexpected rescue of their cattle. Joan ran so much more fleetly than the rest, and leaped so far, that the children believed she actually flew, and they told her so! Tired and breathless, 'out of herself,' says the seneschal, she paused, and in that moment she heard a ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... the road, and, making a knot about the wire, dashed off at a bound; the iron snapped behind; his triumphant laugh pealed yet on the twilight, when the cries of his pursuers rang over the fields of snow. They were aroused; he was fleetly mounted, but they ...
— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend
... an army of bright-eyed little squirrels came fleetly into the thicket and gnawed down thorns and briers before the pilgrims, until they emerged safely into an ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... of sight of the house, Gorham sped fleetly along the road. He intended to walk to town, for he felt like glorying in his happiness under the full moon which was shedding her silver light from a clear heaven. The air was not oppressive, and ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant
... Up the Hudson!—Fleetly gliding To our haunts among the trees! Joy the gallant vessel guiding With a fresh and cheerful breeze! Wives and dear ones yearn to meet us— (Hearts that love us to the core!) And with fond expressions greet us As we near the ...
— Poems • George P. Morris |
