| The swiftness and irrevocability of the changes it had brought about left him with nothing he could use to rebuild his sense of being. |
| They pulled on their packs, put on their boots, pulled up their hoods, and paid the innkeeper with silent swiftness. |
| Thus, with a swiftness approaching the speed of light itself, the luminiferous ether entered the graveyard of discredited scientific ideas. |
| They have a beauty all their own, a seductive, sexy, sinuous swiftness that puts everything else in the sea to shame. |
| The image has the swiftness of haiku, with its undetermined but focused looking. |
| The shark attacked with a suddenness and swiftness that took them all by surprise. |
