1 The touch had its instantaneous effect.
2 At last the keeper heaved the back of the chair off the ground and, with an instantaneous push of his foot, tried to loosen the wheels.
3 Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a consent.
4 And yet there was the dead man and there the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out, as soft-nosed bullets will, and so inflicted a wound which must have caused instantaneous death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 5 His death had certainly been instantaneous and painless.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 6 Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 7 This well-judged and politic stroke on the part of Magua was not without instantaneous results.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 8 The effects of this attack were instantaneous, and to the scout and his friends greatly relieving.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 9 The effect on the Hurons was instantaneous.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 10 The flash of lightning, the crash of thunder, and the instantaneous chill that ran through him were all merged for Levin in one sense of terror.
11 This reasoning was clear and instantaneous; so that without giving time to the Inquisitor to recover from his surprise, he pierced him through and through, and cast him beside the Jew.
12 Yet barely a minute had elapsed before this instantaneously aroused emotion had, as instantaneously, disappeared from his wooden features.
13 Bazarov quickly scanned the letter, and made an effort to control himself, that he might not show the malignant feeling which was instantaneously aflame in his breast.
14 She felt simply dismayed, with a sort of cold and suffocating dismay; the thought that she would not have felt like that if she had really loved him flashed instantaneously through her brain.
15 The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past.