Nor the swift-footed mare tramples the castle court. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Swoops through the building, no swift-footed charger. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
It is plain that one who is endowed with speed is swift-footed. From Wordnik.com. [Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
Thus we see the planets that around it sweep and roll; swift-footed. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
And immediately the swift-footed Naphthali started for the records. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
After them from Taenarus came Euphemus whom, most swift-footed of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
And on them was laid an unenviable struggle: for she, even fair, swift-footed. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the shores for the elk and the bison. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
We were riding down a kind of natural tunnel, following the swift-footed white hare. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
As swift-footed messengers they come, the bearers of life and beauty to distant planets. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The leopard seizes his prey by the throat when it is a swift-footed animal, like the deer. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
Not just lumbering sauropods either, but swift-footed velociraptors and towering Tyrannosaurus rexes. From Wordnik.com. [Rapture Ready!] Reference
The earl urges on his men to run after him, but Hrapp was so swift-footed that they never came near him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Homer's heroes are all good cooks, -- swift-footed Achilles, much-enduring Ulysses, and the rest of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
As the swift-footed waiters passed more and more liquor about, the voices of the speakers rose higher and higher. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
“Who in Hades are you?” snarls the man-killer, swift-footed Achilles, when the sergeant leads me into his inner camp. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Nimrod's horse having gone slightly lame, I offered mine, a swift-footed intelligent dear, and agreed to ride in the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
He called a messenger, the swift-footed Mercury, and said, "Go quickly, and do not return until you have found the treasure.". From Wordnik.com. [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference
Heracles on his way, and they also came back, and swift-footed Euphemus and the twin sons of Thracian Boreas, after a vain toil. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
So come on Gordon still waiting for you to say those last words "Hark, now strikes on my ear the trampling of swift-footed coursers!". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
These knobby-legged unfortunates we of course named Xanthus and Balius, not of podargous or swift-footed, but podagrous or gouty race. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
The swift-footed Picts would run them down within a mile, unless -- he took his position behind a tangle of fallen logs beside the trail. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warrior]
For as, during the Olympian contests, swift-footed. From Wordnik.com. [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
The swift-footed Chancas outran me who was hindered by my mail. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin of the Sun] Reference
The mountain-bred girl obviously saw nothing amiss in this swift-footed justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
But, after all, the swift-footed creatures are circumscribed in their wanderings. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
On either side of the line trot three or four swift-footed lads, armed with wands; for in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
The swift-footed roe of the Cordillera roams here and dwells in the thickets, avoiding the warm forest. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
It is said that there were men in Ireland and the North so swift-footed that no horse could overtake them. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference
The spot where the Sultan sends his swift-footed Arabians to graze on the earliest verdure that decks the face of spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus] Reference
Each felt rather than knew that the swift-footed Arabs were coming ever nearer, and that their only means of salvation lay in strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rebel's Reign] Reference
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