Fleetness [noun]

One waits at the bottom of a field, while his partner quarters the ground with the arrowy fleetness of a swallow.

I knew then that Owen had had a narrow escape, and but for the fleetness of foot of Evan he would surely have been slain.

Among his other gubernatorial accomplishments was a remarkable fleetness of foot.

The latter being promised a liberal reward, bounded away with the fleetness of a deer, and quickly vanished in the gloom.

She called her wild steed to her side, and, plucking these flowers to test his fleetness, sprang upon him and flew hither.

Pete snorted aloud, and, springing forward, ran a hundred paces with all the fleetness of which he was capable.

Men, women, and children were alike put to the sword; four hundred only escaped through the fleetness of their camels.

The best of the lot was Chiron, who to the wisdom and virtues of the horse added the fleetness of man.

The deer ridiculed the terrapin, boasted of his own fleetness, and proposed that the twain should run a race.

Fear had spurred her into fleetness as she had crossed the hills, yet now she hesitated on the threshold.