"Swift" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for you now; please to come quickly," and with a swift glance at her "missy" obeyed; the purdah fell heavily behind her slim, white figure and Shafto was alone. His mission had been fruitless, and yet when he rode away from "Heidelberg" in his heart he carried ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... had pronounced Your glorious name, and bid me urge your speed, Than, with a voice as though it answered heaven, "He shall confound them in their dark designs," Cried he, and turned away with that swift stride Wherewith he meets and quells ...
— Count Julian • Walter Savage Landor
... Swift ran the pedler as a hind, The old priest followed on his trace, They reached the Ghat but could not find The lady of the noble face. The birds were silent in the wood, The lotus flowers exhaled a smell Faint, over all the solitude, A heron as a sentinel Stood ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... wounds, and one gash, deeper than the others, was bleeding freely; so he tore a strip from his shirt and rudely bound it up. It felt better now and he arose, knowing that both man and beast would soon be coming like a swift pursuing vengeance. ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... dethrone the Magi, and in another place the inscription has these words: "Thus saith the King Darius: That which I have done was done in every way by the grace of Auramazda. Auramazda helped me, and such other gods as there be. Auramazda and the other gods gave me help, because I was not swift to anger, nor a liar, nor a violent ruler, neither I nor my kinsmen. I have shown favor unto him who helped my brethren, and I have punished severely him who was my enemy. Thou who shalt be king after me, be not merciful unto him who is a liar or a rebel, but ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
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