think on one's feet

“I think the types of stories we do are very similar to what happened with hip-hop,” says Jones.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.