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celerity
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Definition:quickness; speed
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he profoundly saw a white living spot no bigger than a white weasel, with wonderful celerity uprising, and magnifying as it rose, till it turned, and then there were plainly revealed two long crooked rows of white, glistening teeth, floating up from the undiscoverable bottom. It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw;
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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I never knew an elevator to progress from the third floor of a building to the ninth with such celerity as this one on which we were traveling progressed.
Cobb, Irvin S. (Shrewsbury). Speaking of Operations
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Gentlemen, here’s a fender that if you had the misfortune to hang yourselves would cut you down in no time — with astonishing celerity — four-and-sixpence — five — five-and-sixpence — an appropriate thing for a spare bedroom where there was a four-poster and a guest a little out of his mind — six shillings — thank you, Mr. Clintup — going at six shillings — going — gone!”
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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At the Rink Rapids two native huskies, Teek and Koona, were added; and the celerity with which Buck broke them in took away Francois's breath.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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She hastened to ring the bell; and when the tray came, she proceeded to arrange the cups, spoons, &c., with assiduous celerity.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.528, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/528/mode/1up
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