From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

And when he came to examine the scene, there was a certain staginess to it, it had the smell of planning, and a swift suspicion darted into his mind.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

His early rise in chess was swift, as he became a Candidate Master by age eleven.

Henry V realized swift action and a change in his father's policy was necessary.

Similarly, the shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, was brought to a swift conclusion by shelling from British battleships.

The first attempt at building a larger swift vessel was in America with the Ann McKim, 494 tons OM, built on the enlarged lines of a Baltimore clipper, with sharply raked stem, counter stern and square rig.

Scottish Maid proved swift and reliable and the design was widely copied.

However, they soon began to loot the holy places of Lhasa, which brought a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718 ; but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars, not far from Lhasa.

The change was remarkably swift.

With the swift German advance and the capture of Emperor Napoleon III, France was no longer in a position to protect the Pope's rule in Rome.

The debacle was swift.

The current was swift as they headed downstream.

John's defeat was swift and his attempts to reconquer his French possession at the decisive Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ) resulted in complete failure.

The process was gradual rather than swift: a strong Egyptian presence continued into the 12th century BCE, and, while some Canaanite cities were destroyed, others continued to exist in Iron I.

Adoption was relatively swift in most of the world.

After spending the first months of 47 BC in Egypt, Caesar went to the Middle East, where he annihilated the king of Pontus ; his victory was so swift and complete that he mocked Pompey's previous victories over such poor enemies.

Considerable practice was required to produce the swift and effective combat shooting required.

In stark contrast to its predecessor, Huevos was recorded in a swift, fiery fashion, with many first takes, and minimal second guessing.

The reason for its swift abandonment as an alternative to morphine was due to the adverse effects it had on German soldiers during early trials.

Despite this, the process by which Scots overtook Norn as the primary spoken language on the islands was not a swift one, and most natives of Orkney and Shetland likely spoke Norn as a first language until the late 16th and early-to-mid 17th centuries respectively.

Paraguay contained little oil and no precious metals or sea coasts, but the country was self-sufficient in many areas and was endowed with fertile land, dense forests, and swift rivers.

Earlier, the river was designated kisiskāciwani-sīpiy (" swift flowing river ") in the Cree language.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.

There was no reply so he shoved it open with his foot and stepped inside.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.

( He explained that he could diagnose these ailments from squeezing her foot because all of the nervous system was connected to it.

There was a 34 foot Wheeler with Chief Bob's in big gold letters on its stern also tied up at the dock.

it had a look of grim stark realism, resembling other cities whose habitual climate was cold, instead of the sprawling bumptious open-handed greedy Western city basking in eternal sunshine at the foot of mountains stored with endless riches and resources.

He held his long clenched foot in both hands, and this and his contorted face -- he was trying heroically not to cry out -- made him look like a large skinny old monkey.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

The French critics thought it was characteristic of American films of the 1930s or 1940s ; however, it was mostly characteristic of cheaper American movies, such as Charlie Chan mysteries where people collected in front of a fireplace or at the foot of the stairs in order to explain what happened a few minutes ago.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

He was closely pursued by Asahel, brother of Joab, who is said to have been " light of foot as a wild roe " ( 2 Samuel 2: 18 ).

While deploying a heat-flow experiment that had burned up with the Lunar Module Aquarius on Apollo 13 and had been attempted without success on Apollo 15, a cable was inadvertently snapped after getting caught around Young's foot.

Significant scientific, interplanetary and industrial use did not occur until the 20th century, when rocketry was the enabling technology of the Space Age, including setting foot on the moon.

The Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

Gradually starting in the mid-16th century, one plate element after another was discarded to save weight for foot soldiers.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.