Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rapidly; like a dart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Like a dart; rapidly.
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- adverb In a
darting manner;rapidly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
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Their picks and scythes were terrible enough, flashing high against the red sky to strike dartingly at men and horses.
Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988
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Their picks and scythes were terrible enough, flashing high against the red sky to strike dartingly at men and horses.
Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988
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Her movements, swift and sure, were quicksilver, full of restless energy, dartingly inquisitive.
The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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Her movements, swift and sure, were quicksilver, full of restless energy, dartingly inquisitive.
the ship who sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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Jenny, with her brain restored by the gentle breeze to its normal quickness of action, seemed dartingly to seek in every direction for reassurance! and she found in everything no single tone or touch to feed her insatiable greed for tokens of his love.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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With an odd little gasp of joy the girl reached out dartingly and touched Barton on his sleeve.
Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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Ever when the silver gleam of the Plough had run its farthest from the farmer, the cry sounded; and at the sound the gleam wavered and stayed and flew back dartingly to the farmer's side.
The Field of Clover Laurence Housman 1912
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Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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