1 As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
2 The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 3 They slid down behind it with remarkable celerity, and from this position they began briskly to slice up the blue men.
4 I dare say you believed it; but I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity.
5 The name of Ivanhoe was no sooner pronounced than it flew from mouth to mouth, with all the celerity with which eagerness could convey and curiosity receive it.
6 Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case.
7 The material met with the customer's approval, a price was agreed upon, and with incredible celerity the vendor made up the purchase into a brown-paper parcel, and stowed it away in Chichikov's koliaska.
8 D'Artagnan was therefore served with miraculous celerity.