Like liquor, in an Ogden Nash verse

Usage examples of quicker.

This was a quicker and more direct approach and all in all I favored it.

The quicker he reached the highlands, the quicker those patrols would leave in search of his parents.

Quick as he was, the stranger was quicker, blocking the blow with his staff.

Lighter and quicker, Edain was first off the bridge, springing past the crouched forms of Jair and Slanter.

Suddenly he lunged, quicker than the girl would have thought after having drunk so much, and his hand fastened about her wrist, yanking it away from the weapon.

It would be quicker by three times than trying to make the journey afoot.

Tukko came in with the next course, shuffling about and moving much quicker than it seemed he was.

He had to move quickly, and there was no quicker way than Portal Stones.

He stroked her hair, and his breath came quicker and quicker, and it was now that he told her what he had done for her.

She took one more breath and stepped out again, quicker now, then made herself run head down past the bus shelter and slipway where no swans flaunted themselves today.

She rode through one of the villages of old Beni-Mora, silent, unlighted, with empty streets and closed cafes maures, touched her horse with the whip, and cantered on at a quicker pace.

It was a quicker death than being flogged, and quicker too than most hangings where the prisoners were left to dangle and dance as the rope choked them.

Andrew Jackson cut through red tape quicker than explanations and paperwork and more levels of bureaucracy.

The man was quicker, though, and he scooped up the trailing imp in one strong arm and promptly dropped him into the pig trough.

Badgers were possibly the meanest creatures in the region, even above the orcs, quicker to anger than Bluster the bear and quite willing to take the offensive against any opponent, no matter how large.