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fleet-footed
[ fleet-foot-id ]
adjective
- able to run fast.
Word History and Origins
Origin of fleet-footed1
Example Sentences
Or that “if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
Parties of gentlemen on horseback, with their pack of hounds, hunt the fleet-footed deer.
They are beautiful animals, strong and fleet-footed, but often savage with anyone but their master.
The marines, led by their sergeant, charged after them till the greater number of the fleet-footed savages had disappeared.
Need we say that this is the Scottish Earl, the father of our fleet-footed thralls, and that the dark-haired girl is Emma?
In the darkness, on the steep and ragged descent the fleet-footed savages could almost keep pace with the horse.
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