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- Swift as the wind.
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Examples
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Kra'heera's father had been one of those so honored, and for years thereafter he had told the children and grandchildren his tales, of the wind-swift horse that had the understanding of a man.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Kra'heera's father had been one of those so honored, and for years thereafter he had told the children and grandchildren his tales, of the wind-swift horse that had the understanding of a man.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Wise utterance and wind-swift thought, and city-moulding mind, II 1
The Seven Plays in English Verse 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles
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Speech and the wind-swift speed of counsel and civic wit,
Oedipus Trilogy 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles 1879
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If he is not dead, he must be still living, but the wind-swift horse died long ago.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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The wind-swift warriors of England, who shoot as with shafts of the sun,
Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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They touch my heart, like wind-swift wires [44] that ring
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806
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Sophocles gave an accurate description of Athenian politics when, in the "Ode to Man," of the Antigone, he had a chorus praise humankind for having taught itself political skills that include not only judgment and voice and wind-swift thought but also "constitutional anger," an anger that both regulated the city and was regulated by it (354-55).
FJ's Blog 2009
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1318: And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings:
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