fleetness of foot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Their "fleetness" is needed to counteract his restless activity; their red color implies the final great carnage (Eze 39: 1-29. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
“Antar” Asáfír camels are beasts that fly like birds in fleetness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
In fleetness of foot it is said to equal the horse. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Nor northern winds in fleetness match'd their flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Bharadwaja's son, borne by his steeds of great fleetness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
His fleetness of foot and ready wit made him the favourite. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
Of course Gabriel had nothing for it but his fleetness of limb. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Divine assistance, and partly to the fleetness of the dromedaries. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Thanks to his quickness of brain and fleetness of foot, M. de B----, a. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Gandharvas and Apsaras that have come there, applauded the fleetness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The hare, trusting to her natural gift of fleetness, turned aside and took. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
It was their fleetness against the steadily rising rush of the inexorable sea. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
Capable of assuming any form at will, in fleetness they resembled the very wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The animal, endued with fleetness, quickly cleared a low ground and then a level plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
O king, accompanied with a large number of steeds of great fleetness and beautiful colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The airmen have to trust implicitly to the fleetness of their craft and to their own nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
They obey the mute appeal, and with the fleetness of the mountain goat rush from the cavern. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Vasudeva, of great energy, cometh, urging those white steeds endued with the fleetness of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The sight lends to his steps the fleetness of an antelope; he bounds forward, and is soon at her side. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
A horse must be thoroughly trained to this sport, and must possess great fleetness of foot, as the boar is. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Argives lost all their leaders, Adrastus excepted, who owed his safety to the fleetness of his horse Arion. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
In battle or on review he rode a magnificent milk white steed, a powerful animal and of extraordinary fleetness. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
Owing to their fleetness and the odds they had at the start, the guide and Neal kept far ahead of their comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
Cleveland vessels went, they called forth complimentary remarks by their fleetness and steadiness in heavy weather. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Her almost marvelous agility, her quick, catlike springs and her fleetness of foot called forth unstinted praise from. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
We had not forgotten our humiliation of the morning, and the thought of it gave fleetness to the feet of our pursuers. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
The shoe-shops of McKernan and Potts were the scenes of many heated arguments as to the fleetness of the different sleds. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Toward eleven o'clock the breeze freshened to such an extent that the yacht sped along on her course with great fleetness. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Her strength was as the strength of the Great River, and the fleetness of her foot was as the swiftness of the Great River. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Giants from Brazil] Reference
Time passed, and the white cub was no longer a cub but a grown wolf, unexcelled for fleetness of foot and strength of muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
What winged-footed fleetness and agility may be inferred from the sharp, braided track of the gray squirrel upon the new snow!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
With that mace of awful sound, Bhima, skilled in battle, crushed the four steeds of Shalya that were possessed of great fleetness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
At that time the dealers accomplished all their journeys on horseback, and prided themselves on the fleetness of their saddle-horses. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
Under a momentary impulse, with all seriousness he began to consider his own fleetness of foot as more expedient than travel by boat. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
One day they saw in the woods a strong deer, the leader of a herd, whom, however, they could not seize for his fleetness and strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Gene Saks's staging has the fleetness of a Howard Hawks movie, the women are magnetic and Alan Alda riffs madly with the true Simon rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Spys:Real Or False.?] Reference
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