fleet-foot

As is aforesaid she was as fleet-foot as a deer, so but in a little space of time she had come to the creek, and leapt into the boat, panting and breathless.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Wherefore she turned and went hastily down the hall, and out-a-doors, and over the bridge, and ran fleet-foot down the rocky way whereby she had come, till she could run no further, and lay down under a great stone breathless and fordone; yet her heart upheld her and suffered her not to swoon, belike because she had given her limbs such hard work to do.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

O see the fleet-foot host of men, who march with faces drawn,

Roddy McCorley 1958

Or as the fleet-foot roe that ’s tir’d with chasing,

Venus and Adonis 1914

"'Tis I, fleet-foot, winged messenger, humble slave," laughed Louis, with another grotesque bow; but the rogue had cleverly put himself between the squaw and Miriam's tent.

Lords of the North 1903

Ah yes, the fleet-foot vision that ever eludes me!

The King of the Dark Chamber Rabindranath Tagore 1901

Wherefore she turned and went hastily down the hall, and out-a - doors, and over the bridge, and ran fleet-foot down the rocky way whereby she had come, till she could run no further, and lay down under a great stone breathless and fordone; yet her heart upheld her and suffered her not to swoon, belike because she had given her limbs such hard work to do.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

No one of the felons was nimble enough to escape from the fleet-foot hunters of Burgdale, and they were all slain there to the number of eleven.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

Conquer the fleet-foot doe with slot-tracks smoking and burning.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

Or as the fleet-foot roe that's tired with chasing,

Venus and Adonis 1592