"Fast-flying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wireless operator was sending out an S O S call and a destroyer quickly answered. The steamer remained by the two boats from the sunken schooner until the fast-flying naval vessel appeared ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
... light. At about the same time Marilhat (1811-1847) was in Egypt picturing the life of that country in a similar manner; and later, Fromentin (1820-1876), painter and writer, following Delacroix, went to Algiers and portrayed there Arab life with fast-flying horses, the desert air, sky, light, and color. Theodore Frere and Ziem belong further on in the century, but were no less exponents of romanticism ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Painting • John C. Van Dyke
... rose, and struggled for life. For one instant—for one brief instant—the buildings on the river's banks, the lights on the bridge through which the current had borne him, the black water, and the fast-flying clouds, were distinctly visible—once more he sunk, and once again he rose. Bright flames of fire shot up from earth to heaven, and reeled before his eyes, while the water thundered in his ears, and stunned ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... showers of May And thro' the summer's heavy heat, In vain I sought his golden head And light, fast-flying feet. ...
— Helen of Troy and Other Poems • Sara Teasdale
... great mountain of snow slipping thunderously down to the valleys beneath; but in its ever gathering momentum and incredible velocity it tore great rocks from the ground and either snapped off trees as if they had been straws, or wholly uprooted them, and now was a fast-flying mass of snow, earth, trees and rocks whirling and ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... beckoning, his bird neighbors calling? Where I had appealed to Jerry through his imagination, Carmichael used only the formulae of matter and fact. There was but one way in which he could have succeeded, and that was through the picture of the stupendous agencies of which Jerry was to be the master: the fast-flying steamers, the monster engines on their miles of rails, the glowing furnaces, the sweating figures in the heat and grime of smoke and steam, the energy, the inarticulate power, the majesty of labor which bridged oceans, felled mountains ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs |
