Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Impetuously swift.

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Examples

  • Away the actors went, rather like the fiery-footed steeds mentioned in their recitation.

    A Matter of Voice Joanne Kaufman 2011

  • Turk, or of both these savage people to drive back the fiery-footed Frank, whom Peter the Hermit had, in the time of Alexius, waked to double fury, by the powerful influence of the crusades.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • I was so angry at length, that I threatened to have recourse to my pistols, and send a bullet after the Hotspur Andrew, which should stop his fiery-footed career, if he did not abate it of his own accord.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • The sweat ran down his face in little streams a the prickly heat began to move across his skin, like a fiery-footed centiped beneath his undershirt, but he noticed, neither.

    Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

  • And with the fiery-footed watchers shake in myriad dance and song.

    The Master Singer A. E. 1913

  • I have heard the passionate gallop of those fiery-footed steeds.

    Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 1893

  • I was so angry at length, that I threatened to have recourse to my pistols, and send a bullet after the Hotspur Andrew, which should stop his fiery-footed career, if he did not abate it of his own accord.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • But that swift legion of fiery-footed engines that bore to the burning ruins of Chicago the loving help and generous treasure of the world was as noble and as beautiful as any golden troop of angels that ever fed the hungry and clothed the naked in the antique times.

    Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

  • Look at her soliloquy, 'Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,' etc., and yet it is woven through and through with immortal threads of fidelity and contempt of death:

    More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872

  • They sauntered through the fragrant lanes, as if their loitering would prolong the time, and check the fiery-footed steeds galloping apace towards the close of the happy day.

    Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

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