velox

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“Pooh! the passage is a compliment,” said the Greek, who had recovered himself, and seemed wise enough to take the matter gaily— “‘Ingenium velox, audacia perdita, sermo Promptus, et Isaeo torrentior.’

From Romola by Eliot, George

O. velox has three frontal cirri in a line, thus differing from the Woods Hole form.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

P. campan. umb. soon exp. and sulcate, yellowish grey, umbo yellowish, scurfy; g. adnate; s. white, woolly, thickened and floccose below; sp. 6-8 � 3. velox, Godey.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Sit ipse Adam bene instructus quando respondere debeat, ne ad respondendum nimis sit velox aut nimis tardus, nec solum ipse, sed omnes persone sint.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

Quid ferat externi velox, quid deterat aetas,   Tu quoque securus res age, Nise, tuas.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel