rapider

So: faster, yes; rapider, no — but speedier, yes anyway.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Commoner and Cleverer 2009

And now for the story which is to prove to you that we have traditions on this side of the ocean that are becoming older at a much rapider rate than those of England are--thanks to our git-up and enterprise.

Archive 2007-11-01 Divers 2007

And now for the story which is to prove to you that we have traditions on this side of the ocean that are becoming older at a much rapider rate than those of England are--thanks to our git-up and enterprise.

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen Divers 2007

In the shallow streamlet of her lowly life the waters might have glided on, slow but smoothly, had he not taught them to be ambitious of a rapider, grander course.

The American Senator 2004

"Two hours if you're using a double boiler," explained the Lady, "but many people consider a rapider action more digestible, I suppose."

Fairy Prince and Other Stories Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

"See this here stick here, where the water has already begun to fall, an 'hit'll fall a heap rapider the next hour or two."

The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

That sort of thing came to the Roman Empire slowly, in the course of lifetimes, but nowadays we lived in a rapider world -- with flimsier institutions.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

And now for the story which is to prove to you that we have traditions on this side of the ocean that are becoming older at a much rapider rate than those of England are -- thanks to our git-up and enterprise.

The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

We throw our concept forward, get a foothold on the consequence, hitch our line to this, and draw our percept up, travelling thus with a hop, skip and jump over the surface of life at a vastly rapider rate than if we merely waded through the thickness of the particulars as accident rained them down upon our heads.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

In the shallow streamlet of her lowly life the waters might have glided on, slow but smoothly, had he not taught them to be ambitious of a rapider, grander course.

The American Senator Anthony Trollope 1848