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Meanings of lightning quickness in English

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Usage of lightning quickness in English
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With lightning quickness, Storm dove to his left just as the gun fired.
A Brewing Storm
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For a moment the crowd was stunned by the lightning quickness of it all.
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories
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With lightning quickness the hounds start suddenly, prick up their ears, make a bound forward.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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Previously the unknown man had walked, with levity indeed and lightning quickness, but he had walked.
The Innocence of Father Brown
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Divining what she had done, his mind ran with lightning quickness to face this new emergency.
The Seeker
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Anna's point of view changed with lightning quickness.
Good Old Anna
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His reason worked with a lightning quickness.
Bunker Bean
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With lightning quickness the agent slid the dispatch case away from the doctor's side and stood up.
Winning a Cause: World War Stories
9
She nodded lightly, dropped her lovely eyes with a sudden embarrassment, and went away with lightning quickness.
Robert Elsmere
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The reflections that passed with lightning quickness through his mind, only served to stimulate his determination the more.
The Canadian Brothers; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the...
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Physical weakness made speaking difficult, and his mind no longer worked with the lightning quickness of old days.
French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
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She turned with a lightning quickness.
The Emigrant Trail
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Then there was his lightning quickness.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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With lightning quickness I reached over the dashboard down to the whiffletrees and unhooked one each of the horses' traces.
Over Prairie Trails
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She pulled her hand from his grasp with lightning quickness, her nails cutting a deep, long gash across his palm.
Shadow fall
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The man on the left began to melt where he stood, but the other seemed to disappear with lightning quickness.
The darkest touch
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Lightning quickness across language varieties
United Kingdom
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