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The artificer and husbandman makes greatest account of such meat as they may soonest come by, and have it quickliest ready, except it be in London when the companies of every trade do meet on their quarter days, at which time they be nothing inferior to the nobility.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

So he inquired forthwith the way that one might quickliest come into the presence of Queen Helen.

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

The artificer and husbandman makes greatest account of such meat as they may soonest come by, and have it quickliest ready, except it be in London when the companies of every trade do meet on their quarter days, at which time they be nothing inferior to the nobility.

Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6 1909

That soonest fails to please, and quickliest turns

THE EXCURSION BOOK THIRD 1888

Patroklos when he slew him, but there was an opening where the collar bones coming from the shoulders clasp the neck, even at the gullet, where destruction of life cometh quickliest; there, as he came on, noble

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

Rinieri, believing this to be true, replied, 'Tell my lady to give herself no concern for me till such time as she can at her commodity come to me, but bid her do this as quickliest she may.'

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

Guardestaing, without being able to make any defence or even to say a word, fell from his horse, transfixed of the lance, and a little after died, whilst his servants, without waiting to learn who had done this, turned their horses 'heads and fled as quickliest they might, towards their lord's castle.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

As soon as Andreuccio found himself near the top, he let go the rope and laid hold of the marge with both hands; which when the officers saw, overcome with sudden affright, they dropped the rope, without saying a word, and took to their heels as quickliest they might.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

The latter, hearing this talk, let part of it pass as idle and answered the rest very courteously, avouching that Ghino would visit him as quickliest he might.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

The Jew mounted to horse and as quickliest he might betook himself to the court of Rome, he was honourably entertained of his brethren, and there abiding, without telling any the reason of his coming, he began diligently to enquire into the manners and fashions of the Pope and

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344