"Very fast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... too, the question of moulting and change of plumage, and the possibility that this physiological event may influence the removal to a different climate. Birds migrate principally for food and warmth; secondly, on account of the pressure of numbers (for in good seasons they increase very fast); thirdly, for the sake of health; fourthly, for sexual reasons; fifthly, from the operation of a kind of prehistoric memory; sixthly, from choice. One or other of these causes will explain almost every case ...
— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies
... upon to go again—which is most unsatisfactory, situated as I am here, in calculating distances. Wind all night strong from south-east to south-south-east and very cold; no dew. The waters are drying up very fast; during the afternoon of yesterday the country looked well; nice open ranges on all sides with a large space of open country, well grassed in the centre. Started at 8.15 a.m. on bearing of 95 1/2 degrees; at 9.17 passed till this time rather thickly wooded (low) small ironstone, pebbly country, ...
— McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia • John McKinlay
... "And going very fast," said the lady mischievously. "Well, then, you needn't forget ME. On the contrary," she added, after looking at him curiously, "I would rather you'd remember me. Good-by—or, rather, good-afternoon—if ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... or two of a rope run out and the sloop's bows swung round a little. Her rail was just awash, and she was sailing very fast. Then her deck slanted more sharply and the low rail became submerged ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... on clapboards very fast, and David was so interested in seeing them do it that he forgot that the foreman had not come ...
— The Doers • William John Hopkins
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