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The generals of the allies attacked the Lacedæmonians with the Illyrian troops, but Eukleides, the brother of Kleomenes, perceiving that by this movement the foot were completely severed from the horse, sent the swiftest of his light-armed troops to outflank them and cut them off.
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As they sped along the mountain side they were seen by Lorne, who directed his henchman, with four of his bravest and swiftest men, to follow him. After a long chase the MacDougalls came up with Bruce and his foster brother, who drew their swords and stood on the defence. The henchman, with two of his followers, attacked Bruce, while the other two fell on his foster brother.
'What have you in the canoe that I should smell carrion? 'It is nothing in the canoe, said the spirit. 'It is the land- wind blowing down the mountains, where some beast lies dead. It appears it was still night when they reached Manu'a the swiftest passage on record and as they entered the reef the bale-fires burned in the village.
And he whizzed down the passage with his swiftest rat-like dart, while the Squad followed him, shouting and tumbling over each other. Loristan walked slowly up and down the back sitting-room and listened to Marco, who sat by the small fire and talked. "Go on," he said, whenever the boy stopped. "I want to hear it all. He's a strange lad, and it's a splendid game."
And ever the earls rode quickly, and ever awhile looked behind them; and ever the knights of Rome quick after came. And there came near a knight, riding swiftest of all, and ever he called most keenly: "Turn again, knights, and defend you with fight! It is to you much shame, that ye will fly." Marcel hight the knight, of noble lineage.
It is difficult to imagine backwards into the time when self-consciousness was still so fresh from its emergence out of the mere tribal consciousness of savagery, that it must not only accept the fact, but first intensely realize, that man is hôkymorôtatos a thing of swiftest doom.
For this purpose I thought a knowledge of navigation might be of use to me; for, though I did not intend to run away unless I should be ill used, yet, in such a case, if I understood navigation, I might attempt my escape in our sloop, which was one of the swiftest sailing vessels in the West Indies, and I could be at no loss for hands to join me: and if I should make this attempt, I had intended to have gone for England; but this, as I said, was only to be in the event of my meeting with any ill usage.
Now of a sudden Leonard distinctly saw the rock sledge and its living burden, which just then was travelling its swiftest, move upwards as though it had leaped into the air and then continue its course along the rising place which represented the throat of the wasp, till at length it stopped.
He had fancied that he saw sails on the horizon at sunset, but the swiftest galley became a hedgehog when the wind blew against its prow, and even checked the oars. Others, too, had fancied that they had seen sails, and Dion would gladly have gone out to sea to investigate, but he was entirely alone in a frail hired boat, and this would not have been permitted to pass beyond the harbour.
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