fleetly

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Fleetly, her bare feet scarcely touching the soft earth, she covered the distance to his house.

From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt

Fleetly, silently, untiringly ran the two brothers, without exchanging a single word of their purpose even to each other.

From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Everett-Green, Evelyn

Fleetly o'er the moonlight snows   Speed we to my lady's bower; Swift our sledge as lightning goes,   Nor shall stop till morning's hour.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Fleetly he fled, pursued as far as the gate by the whole body of Penrod, and thereafter by Penrod's voice alone.

From Penrod and Sam by Tarkington, Booth

Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding, Loudly the war cries rise on the gale; Fleetly the steed by Lough Swilly is bounding To join the thick squadrons in Saimear's green vale.

From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady