Citations:rapid


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
 * He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock. Its rapid little pulse beat twelve: and stopped.