prestissimo

• “Once, while I was playing a piece called " Run Run, " he stopped me, got down on all fours, and crawled around the room prestissimo .”

  The Wall Street Journal: Nurturing Creativity in the Next Generation

• “As staged here, prestissimo, it's a Darwinian contest for center stage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Puppetry With a (Basil) Twist

• “And as finally, the boy had won a round of plaudits for the manner in which he kept each muscle of the body in full exercise whilst dancing, so now the jester, bidding the flute-girl quicken the time (presto! presto! prestissimo!), fell to capering madly, tossing legs and arms and head together, until he was fairly tired out, and threw himself dead beat upon the sofa, gasping:”

  Symposium

• “A splendid, sixteenfold error in multiplication which gives so much beauty to our awakening and makes life begin again on a different scale, like those great changes of rhythm which, in music, mean that in an andante a quaver has the same duration as a minim in a prestissimo, and which are unknown in our waking state.”

  The Captive

• “Toothaches can play it staccato, glissando, accelerando, prestissimo, and above all fortissimo.”

  All for a Liberace Smile? Amis in the Dentist's Chair

• “Ditto, for concealing a lover in a closet, and the sudden appearance of the father, guardian, or husband, as the case may be -- a _prestissimo_ movement, with an agitated _cadenza_.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841

• “I see Gaetano: will be back again _prestissimo! _ ”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

• “No sooner is one strain ended than it is suddenly taken up again in the _prestissimo_ time and "slowed" down to the same dismal conclusion.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859

• “-- He said, _con strepito_, "Den pring up te Tinner _prestissimo_, I am de gombany.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829

• “First Act is good; the Second is the best; but the Third is like the last figure in an after-supper early-in-the-morning Lancers, ending in a whirligig _galop_, when everything is fast and furious, and just the tune and its measure taken _prestissimo_ and _fortissimo_ keep the couples going till everybody is breathless and exhausted.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892

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