suddener

A throw is a gamble with one's life; it is suddener than a thrust and harder to parry; but if it fails, you are left with a three-foot sword against a seven-foot spear.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

A tricky place that would be, with sudden exits and even suddener entrances, and with damp, winding, spidery places to hoard treasure in, or to hide oneself in.

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

Couldn't have been much suddener if he'd been struck by lightnin '.

Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

Seems she lay back suddener than she really intended an 'as she hit the floor, she was _took_.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

I had used the ocean for above ten years, but never had I encountered anything suddener or fiercer in the form of weather than this.

The Frozen Pirate 1877

A world of musical feeling was pent up in her, and music raised the suddener storms in her mobile nature, that she was unable to give that feeling utterance.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

"Yes, my dear," said Mrs. Sennacherib; "he's got enough to last his time, unless it should please the Lord to send him a new and suddener affliction.

Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray