" The slender delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered a moment over her head, then as if instinct with demoniac intelligence fastened upon her in sudden coils round and round her neck and arms ; then while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wildly to be instantly strangled down again into a gurgling moan, the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, retracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey.

Smaller, quicker centres may employ swiftness tactics such as trying to contact the puck before his opponent has a chance to get his stick in the dot, or the slide technique where he allows his opponent access to the dot easily so he can slide his stick underneath and pull the puck back out.

The killing swiftly spread from Kigali to all corners of the country ; between April 6 and the beginning of July, a genocide of unprecedented swiftness left between 500, 000 and 1, 000, 000 Tutsis ( 800, 000 is a commonly noted number ) and moderate Hutus dead at the hands of organized bands of militia ( Interahamwe ) or organized rebels ( Inkotanyi ).

Hypoglycemic episodes can vary greatly between persons and from time to time, both in severity and swiftness of onset.

According to the Opies, Jack's magical accessories – the cap of knowledge, the cloak of invisibility, the magic sword, and the shoes of swiftness – could have been borrowed from the tale of Tom Thumb or from Norse mythology, however older analogues in British Celtic lore such as Y Mabinogi and the tales of Gwyn Ap Nudd, cognate with the Irish Fionn Mac Cumhaill, suggest that these represent attributes of the earlier Celtic gods such as the shoes associated with triple-headed Lugus ; Welsh Lleu Llaw Gyffes of the Fourth Branch, Arthur's invincible sword Caledfwlch and his Mantle of Invisibility Gwenn one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain mentioned in two of the branches ; or the similar cloak of Caswallawn in the Second Branch.

The stalk on the Pikmin's head, topped with either a leaf, bud, or flower, indicates the Pikmin's swiftness and strength, growing upon consumption of nectar harvested from various sources.

Legend claimed that mares of the area were sired by the wind ( hence their amazing swiftness, passed onto their foals ), and one modern hypothesis suggests that the bond between Iberian humans and horses was the initial inspiration for the centaur, which was believed to come from the area of the Tagus River.

Samtay further reasons that the drift in understanding from " river horse " to " wind horse " would have been reinforced by associations in Tibet of the " ideal horse " ( rta chogs ) with swiftness and wind.

He was surnamed Cursor from his swiftness of foot.

The briefness of this period and the swiftness with which radiation took place would help account for the relative scarcity of primitive amphibian fossils.

Sections of the Missouri River floodplain taken by the United States Geological Survey show a great variety of material of varying coarseness, the stream bed having been scoured at one place and filled at another by currents and floods of varying swiftness, so that sometimes the deposits are of coarse gravel, sometimes of fine sand or of fine silt.

Not only does Pope exemplify " swiftness " by rushing over 12 syllables in the place of 10 ; he actually implies 14 syllables in the place of 10 ( not to suggest Pope would have read it this way ), including 4 lightly stressed syllables ( actual and implied ) between the first 2 ictuses:

Hence, it never lies down, but reclines against a tree while it sleeps ; it can only be taken by previously cutting into the tree, and thus laying a trap for it, as otherwise, it would escape through its swiftness.

As far as his intellectual gifts were concerned, he had a wonderful memory, which, if supplemented by other talents in like proportion, would have made him a marvel, but he lacked swiftness of apprehension and deep insight, so that his masses of arguments and citations were indiscriminate, and he was filled with an inconceivable impudence though he had the cleverness to conceal it.

Paul Atreides notes Duncan's " dark round face " and " feline movements, the swiftness of reflex that made him such a difficult weapons teacher to emulate.

His fiancée, Lucy Wang, was with him at the time but saw little of what happened because of the swiftness of the murder.

Some favor the derringer as a concealed carry weapon because of its size as well as the swiftness of putting it into action.

And as in wisdom so in strength of body, swiftness, and valour there was found none equal to Milinda in all India.

During the three weeks of this campaign, all enemies were treated without quarter and put to the sword-including women and children-which explains, perhaps, the swiftness with which so many castles had been abandoned before Gilbert's aggression.

Robert Nozick made the point that what happens in society can not always be reduced to competitions for a coveted position ; in 1974, Nozick wrote that " life is not a race in which we all compete for a prize which someone has established " and that there is " no unified race " and there is not some one person " judging swiftness.

Nuclear weapons are fearsome, but the long-range ballistic missile gives them a stealth and merciless swiftness which is much more terrifying.

In Greek mythology, one myth associates Equuleus with the foal Celeris ( meaning " swiftness " or " speed "), who was the offspring or brother of the winged horse Pegasus.

The standard of The American Kennel Club describes the breed as " Of great size and commanding appearance, the Irish Wolfhound is remarkable in combining power and swiftness with keen sight.

The wyakin was to bestow the animal's powers on its bearer – for example ; a deer might give its bearer swiftness.

The Zohar spread among the Jews with remarkable swiftness.

This war ended as unfortunately as Amphiaraus had predicted, and Adrastus alone was saved by the swiftness of his horse Arion.

He was distinguished for his beauty, swiftness of foot, and skill as a charioteer.

* Polites was the son of Priam and Hecuba, and was known for his swiftness.

" He has a swiftness of mind ," Lahr wrote, " which convinces the audience that language is being coined in the moment.

The blade whistled in its swiftness, and the bloody head of Kenneth rolled in the mud.

In October 1652 Oliver Cromwell's spy master John Thurloe received a report that a Frenchman in Rotterdam, referred to as ' a subtle mathematician ', was having a ship built to his design " which is to go with certain instruments without sail, with incredible strength and swiftness, either with or against the wind.

This portion of the Shahnameh is relatively short, amounting to some 2, 100 verses or four percent of the entire book, and it narrates events with the simplicity, predictability, and swiftness of a historical work.

It also represented swiftness.

The success of an amphibious landing at that location, in a basin substantially comprising reclaimed marshland and surrounded by mountains, depended completely on the element of surprise and the swiftness with which the invaders could move relative to the reaction time of the defenders.

The swiftness of Famulus's execution gives a wonderful unity to his compositions and astonishing delicacy to their execution.

The chariot was revolutionary and effective because it delivered fresh warriors to crucial areas of battle with swiftness.

In the Latin American version, the " M " stands for " Meteoro ", Speed / Go's Latin American name and the name of the series in Latin America which literally translates into English as " meteor ", an object that can also be related to swiftness and speed.

The US national security interest in significantly growing transmission capacity drove passage of the 2005 energy act giving the Department of Energy the authority to approve transmission if states refuse to act.

This drove both marketing and engineering departments of semiconductor manufacturers to focus enormous energy aiming for the specified increase in processing power that it was presumed one or more of their competitors would soon actually attain.

* A number of spin-off media have provided additional explanation for the Doctor's regeneration including the Virgin New Adventures novels Timewyrm: Revelation, Love and War by Paul Cornell, Head Games by Steve Lyons, all of which speculate that the Seventh Doctor's ' essence ' drove the Sixth Doctor to pilot the TARDIS into the Rani's tractor beam to become Time's Champion and prevent himself from becoming the Valeyard, and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Spiral Scratch by Gary Russell, which features the Sixth Doctor sacrificing much of his energy to prevent a pan-dimensional being from destroying creation, leaving him in a weakened physical condition before the Rani's attack.

Dora Riparia was there for a long time the main source of energy: already in medieval times its water was collected in canals ( duriae ) that drove mills, water wheels and other contraptions.