go like lightning

"The time seems to go like lightning—thinking" he confessed—"I seem to sweep the mornings up in a handful."

‘Four months,’ I said, ‘since you came back;’ and he looked up at Sage and said that the time seemed to go like lightning.”

It was such measures as these that made the bayonet work go like lightning, and cut down the time required at it by more than one-half.

From time to time a flash would reveal a lancer bent to his horse's neck, or a cuirassier, with his broad white back and his helmet with its floating plume, shooting off like a bullet, two or three foot soldiers running about in the midst of the fray,—all would come and go like lightning.

Such little feet, sir, and they go like lightning!