Swift

(noun.) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

(noun.) an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745).

(noun.) United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903).

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• There was a little brusque, turgid contempt for her in his swift gesture, and she seemed to cringe a little. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her resolutions. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The torpedo boat destroyer is a larger and swifter boat, whose special duty it is to overtake and destroy this dangerous little fighter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Still larger and possibly swifter steamships are in process of construction, viz. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The swifter craft are seldom equipped with large buoyancy tanks, since the added bulk of them tends to reduce a vessel's speed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He never rode a match on the swiftest animal in his costly stud, with half the speed at which he had torn along the course that ended in the Fleet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There is one there, he said, my personal property, built to carry five men, that is the swiftest of the swift. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Notwithstanding the success of his machine, which on public exhibition beat five of the swiftest hand sewers, he met only discouragement and disappointment. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Order your swiftest flier to the palace top. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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