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  • adverb rare, literary, dated More quickly; with greater rapidity.

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Examples

  • Many happened in our hotel where we liked everybody, from the kindly, most capable Catalonian head waiter to the fine-headed little Napoleonic-looking waiter who had identified us at San Sebastian as Americans, because we spoke "quicklier" than the

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • He had been a year in London, he said, and he took us for English, though, now he came to notice it, he perceived we were Americans because we spoke "quicklier" than the English.

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • Sebastian as Americans, because we spoke “quicklier” than the English, and who ran to us when we came into the hotel and shook hands with its as if we were his oldest and dearest friends.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your city.

    All’s Well That Ends Well 2004

  • Some tokens of him are, -- he loves men better upon relation than experience, for he is exceedingly enamoured of strangers, and none quicklier a weary of his friend.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • Neither these halls nor these papers will amuse him directly through their art, but he will instruct himself quicklier and soundlier from them than from any other source, for they are the authentic sources of the public's laughter.

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up: marry in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your city.

    Act I. Scene I. All’s Well that Ends Well 1914

  • And he will not live down quicklier than they the taunt of amateurishness in his secondary art.

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Brendon, though he felt his heart beat quicklier at his discovery, soon had himself in hand.

    The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • I gather from the account of Leeuwarden that the justices of that city once knew a crime when they saw one -- none quicklier.

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

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