Rapidly; promptly

Usage examples of quickly.

The sheriff thrust the papers at Major MacInnes and Abigail could only stare while he quickly scanned the pages.

I can assure you I have quite a lot at my disposal all kinds of different spells fee faw fums, mumbo jumbos, abraxas, love potions, he glanced quickly at the queen here and added, though I see you have no need of the last of those, having a very beautiful wife whom you love to distraction.

These trials were made with cut offleaves, and it occurred to me that this circumstance might influence the result, as the footstalks would not perhaps absorb water quickly enough to supply the glands as they continued to secrete.

The image quickly darkened and solidified until the academician appeared as solid as Bandar.

The Zondarians quickly saw the wisdom in acceding to our gentle guidance, and put themselves under Thallonian rule.

Working quickly, he attached the much smaller, but much more efficient crystal-lattice trap and accelerometer to a port upstream from the main detector, where the substation tapped into the Tevatron flow.

The precipitate is filtered quickly through a large filter, and washed with hot water containing a little acetate of soda.

Moving very quickly I went to the bench on which was mounted the acuity tester and started to comply.

Most of the crew suffered from some degree of nausea while adapting to microgravity, and those especially affected, such as AH Tillman and Alex Dyachkov, are still prone to attacks if they spin around too quickly, or if they find themselves without an absolute reference point.

It seemed impossible that the news had spread so quickly from Wes to filter into this group of customers, but then Addle only had to look as far as herself to know that it had happened before.

One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself more than Timokhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutuzov, who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his scarred and puffy face.

Dazed from the dreamlike state, I was quickly brought back to reality when Adeem started screaming in pain.

When they arrived at the adobe house, Bay quickly nursed Whipp, fully intending to put him to bed and end the evening in the way that had been denied her for the past few months.

The woman appeared to be Hispanic and said something quickly to Casey before rushing back into the tiny adobe house.

For a moment the insides of his eyeplates fogged, quickly adsorbed by the semi-porous plastic.