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On the contrary, I am speeding them forward with added watchfulness.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Chicago is reached, and after a hurried transfer of trains I am speeding on to my objective point, New York.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes

I imagine now that I am speeding on in a straight line in a direction opposite to that of the checked motion.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

I hear the boys tittering at the table behind me—a sound which, telling me how ill I am speeding, makes my confusion tenfold worse.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

Neath the evening star I am speeding far,    Oh! a good steed do I ride; And my heart beats high with hope and cheer,    For my love is at my side.

From Yesterdays by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler