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On my final run, I wanted to push the beast to get a decent top-speed number.

James M. Clash: Scorching Roma in the New Lamborghini Aventador James M. Clash 2011

On my final run, I wanted to push the beast to get a decent top-speed number.

James M. Clash: Scorching Roma in the New Lamborghini Aventador James M. Clash 2011

She felt, rather than perceived, the calm and certitude of all the muscular play of him, and she felt, too, the promise of easement and rest that was especially grateful and craved-for by one who had incessantly, for six days and at top-speed, ironed fancy starch.

CHAPTER II 2010

With the transparent roof removed, air resistance limits the Grand Sport to 217 mph, but you'd want that roof on for a top-speed run anyway; the wind could rip your face off at around 245.

Wired Top Stories 2009

Their drivers are trained to drive at top-speed of 200 kmph on highways and 80-100 kmph on the small roads.

Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

Marcel springs to the controls of the mobile building, keys in to Central Control a request for omnidirectional top-speed clearance, which sometimes comes through and sometimes not, depending on a secret process among the granters of permission, a process it is one of the 4's ongoing mandates to discover and impart to the world.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Most of the time, however, was employed in training the ponies, and the plain, in front of the village, presented a very animated appearance as the horsemen were seen dashing along at top-speed, throwing the lasso, or rushing headlong up to another warrior, who personated a buffalo, go through the motions of killing him.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

Every gait was traveled; for weeks he would go at top-speed, go until nerve and blood could brook no more.

Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

These short flights had served merely to put the parts in good working trim; but the lad knew better than to make the pace that of top-speed from the start.

On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood

There he guarded them all day, and at sunset brought them back to the town; when as soon as they reached the gate, the herd separated, and right and left, at top-speed, every hog hastened to his own house.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various