Bladud received his orders in silence, and obeyed them with that unquestioning and unhesitating promptitude which is one of the surest evidences of fitness to command. From Wordnik.com. [The Hot Swamp] Reference
Ottawa, the government acted with great promptitude. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
He smiled at the promptitude of her ingenious admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
But my companion's mind was made up with the promptitude of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The old lawyer paid her a smiling compliment on her promptitude. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
He rang his bell, and the office messenger answered it with promptitude. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Napoleon's fate being the only instance of promptitude on this point. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Decision and promptitude are as requisite in self-culture as in business. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Maghallanes, with great promptitude, gave orders to board Quesada's vessel. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It was an instinct, and acted with the force and promptitude proper to such. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Decisions were taken too late and were not carried out with promptitude or thoroughness. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
His energy, his promptitude, his habits of thrift, would have made him one of the best of farmers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The promptitude of his movements and his gallantry should entitle him to the commendation of his country. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
I rose and saw him spring upon the scaffold with such promptitude that he might almost have been said to fly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With the promptitude of absolute certainty, he put out his strong hands and lifted the child from the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
In fact, that one deed of promptitude and courage had raised him from the last to one of the first among the whole crew. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
There was an air of such promptitude about him as he spoke that Mrs. Bryant half expected to see him vanish then and there. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Should the employer fail to be impressed he simply pushes the bell and you are shown off the premises with great promptitude. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
Your ladyship's devoted servant, ever in the foremost rank! never did a nine-pounder traverse the enemy's line with more promptitude than I. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Should an occasion ever occur in which I can interpose with decisive effect, I shall certainly know and do my duty with promptitude and zeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
And yet we think our good readers -- nay, our best of readers -- have shirked godly counsel over and over, with very much the same promptitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
They were supported with great promptitude by the reserves of the divisions holding the salient and by a brigade which had been resting in billets. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Richard Avenel seized his advantage with the promptitude of a man who had got on in America, and was therefore accustomed to make the best of things. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The "novice," as the camp with much promptitude christened him, was keenly scanned when, having divested himself of his coat, he appeared at the post. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
The agent stayed two days longer in the city, and then departed; the young man with him, for with the promptitude of his nature, to resolve was to act. From Wordnik.com. [Stories and Sketches] Reference
The legs are not raised to that height, or with that promptitude which the will directs, so that the utmost care is necessary to prevent frequent falls. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
Not without doubt and disquietude did Federico obey the orders of the old man, who displayed, in this conjuncture, a promptitude and decision rare at his age. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
She had adapted herself to her new surroundings with unusual promptitude and been adopted by the other four-footed members of the estate as "a friend and equal.". From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
With his usual promptitude and decision, he attacked Panos Kolokotroni, the son of the old Klepht, and Staïkos, a Moreote captain of some reputation, in the plain of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
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