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  • These are great incentives; not for any of these, but for the plain satisfaction of living, of being about their business in some sort or other, do the brave, serviceable men of every nation tread down the nettle danger, and pass flyingly over all the stumbling-blocks of prudence.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds moved flyingly across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

    The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

  • Lad's brain always worked more quickly than did his lithe body; flyingly rapid as were that body's motions.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • And that’s on a good day when I don’t need to exercise or shave my legs… or go grocery shopping, or find time to get snot-flyingly drunk.

    bumpsadaisy Diary Entry bumpsadaisy 2007

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