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• There is another kind of swift, the "white-bellied swift," which has, on a few occasions, been noticed in this country. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
• Homer's heroes are all good cooks,--swift-footed Achilles, much-enduring Ulysses, and the rest of them. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
• I recalled the swift, darting onslaughts with the fly whackers, the fierce, vindictive slaughter of the frogs, his early-morning pursuit of the flock of migrating birds. —  The Killer
• The conversation on his part, however, almost takes the form of trying to persuade me from my purpose altogether, and particularly not to attempt Afghanistan The Harood is as wide as from here to the other side of the lake yonder (200 yards); tund (swift) as a swift-running horse and deep as this house," he informs me No bridge? —  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
• Next to the Bible, the newspaper_,--swift-winged, and everywhere present, flying over the fences, shoved under the door, tossed into the counting-house, laid on the work-bench, hawked through the cars! —  The Abominations of Modern Society

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