What is "instantly"

Usage examples of "instantly".

Sangiban, the faithless king of the Alani, was placed in the centre, where his motions might be strictly watched, and that the treachery might be instantly punished.

Once the Russians got wind of my owning the pieces, the white forces instantly suspected some might be here in Algeria where I live.

Sir Alured in his letter expressed a hope that Everett might be informed instantly.

Instantly rain slashed across the unprotected amphitheater, vaporizing where molten rock pooled sullenly.

Instantly Nom Anor mastered himself again, wiping his lipless mouth with the back of his wrist.

Then the dewar would collapse instantly under the water pressure, causing all the remaining antihydrogen to be mixed with matter.

Instantly, then, shouts of laughter--torchlight scattering the shadows amid gloom--green cypresses --fire--color splurging on the bosom of the water--babel of hundreds of voices as the gay Antiochenes swarmed out from behind the trees--and a cheer, as the girls by the altar threw their garments off and scampered naked along the river-bank toward a bridge that joined the temple island to the sloping lawns, where the crowd ran to await them.

The book instantly galvanized antislavery sentiments and once more hardened the lines between free and slave.

Instantly before his eyes rose the image of a pair of shoulders that were very broad, objectionably broad, clad in a frogged overcoat with an astrachan collar.

Why he did not instantly go to Asuncion is not quite clear, for in America it was the custom, owing to the great distance from Rome, that Bishops, on receipt of the royal order of appointment, got themselves chosen by the chapter of their diocese to govern provisionally.

Just as a twinge in wrist or elbow would have warned him instantly of damage, some faint vibration, some subtle shift in weight arrested him in midswing, so that the loosened axhead flew harmlessly across the clearing, rather than slamming into his vulnerable foot.

As the smell was like the smell of the bakeshop near home, and as the doughnuts looked the same, David instantly plucked up courage.

Instantly Banty found his heart warming towards this big pink cousin, who bore with such sturdy good humor the affliction of such a terrible name.

Hunter had moved just outside the gate and beyond the barbed wire, but he responded instantly.

As governor, Barnett was commander of an eleven-thou- sand-man National Guard and a small National Guard air force, but both could be instantly taken away from him and absorbed into the U.