What is "fleetness"

Usage examples of "fleetness".

And the Archdeacon, realizing with his whole mind what had happened, turned with unexpected fleetness and ran for the hall door.

And in the fleetness of that moment he knew the location of the place and the meaning of it and the coordinates of a fantastic cosmographic system that could get him there.

I can see no more reason to doubt this, than that man can improve the fleetness of his greyhounds by careful and methodical selection, or by that unconscious selection which results from each man trying to keep the best dogs without any thought of modifying the breed.

October came word from Labienus that Caesar had left Italian Gaul to journey with his usual fleetness all the way to the stronghold of Nemetocenna in the lands of the Belgic Atrebates, where Trebonius was quartered with the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Legions.

Neither courage nor fleetness of foot helped those Picts who found themselves within striking distance of the pair.

Although not designed for fleetness, Leader Silverside had nevertheless made good its escape, frantically shucking missiles along the way and taking refuge in a utilities closet inside one of the flange support legs of the Nova Grade laser.

He ran with surprising fleetness for such a big man, but saw after only a dozen running steps that he wasn't going to catch her.

It told him of a strange, hairless, black ape with feathers growing upon its head, who launched death from a slender branch, and then ran, with the fleetness of Bara, the deer, toward the rising sun.

To our infinite surprise, however, the right fielder ran with fleetness that made our own Deerfoot seem slow, and he got under the ball and caught it.

She leaned forward, sleeking her planked body to a fleetness that made her crew whoop with excitement.