Promptness in response

Usage examples of alacrity.

More than twenty centimeters shorter than Alacrity, he had close-trimmed brown hair and a beard going to gray.

Dincrist was the picture of a patrician-sportsman, even taller than Alacrity and very fit, white-haired and deeply tanned.

Dincrist took a half step toward them, and Alacrity braced for a dustup.

Why a top officer of the powerful Bank of Spica should want to quiz Floyt about his inheritance, then try to shoot him and Alacrity, was still a puzzle.

His tongue probed at the gap where Alacrity had knocked out two of his teeth.

Selecting a long-stemmed goblet of greenish wine and a stylish little Perkup nasal inhaler, Alacrity sighed.

Especially for some inconsequential interstellar spindrift the likes of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh.

The man was backing toward the catwalk, nearly on all fours, the burpgun aimed where Alacrity had been.

Floyt helped him up, demanding to know if he was all right although Alacrity was gasping too hard to answer.

Floyt caught a look at the screen where Alacrity had entered his question.

As Alacrity and Floyt moved to the hatch, they were met by Seven Wars.

Twain brought a dental unit with her and, in an astoundingly short time, initiated the growth of teeth to replace the ones Alacrity had knuckled loose.

There were rocks and even a stump, and what looked to Alacrity like a low stone prayer wall carved in the style found on Llahsa.

Dorraine was all in white as well: stole, cossack hat, and a muff big enough, it occurred to Alacrity in passing, to hold those cute derringers plus a few landmines for luck.

These two here beside me are Citizen Hobart Floyt and Master Alacrity Fitzhugh.