Last week, Jon Prideaux, from Visa International in Europe, admitted to a "growing respect for PayPal's fleetness of foot".Credit cards account for around half of all transactions on the Internet though that is still a mere 2% of all credit-card business, almost all of which is done at point of sale (in shops and restaurants) or by telephone.
In his fountain Mercury (c. 1580; Bargello, Florence) Giambologna uses the shimmering play of light on the figure's smooth surface to enhance the effect of fleetness.
Eyre's versions of Hedda and Ghosts were notable for their fleetness – direct and crisp, the idiom freshly clear to the modern ear, while avoiding any anachronisms that would jar with their late 19th-century milieu.
Perhaps we'll eventually sicken of the Bourne series, too, but at present its kinetic energy and fleetness, unhampered by the baggage of four decades, are leaving Bond way behind.
When they introduced a session of ladder work, requiring the children to step as quickly as possible over the rungs of a horizontal ladder, to encourage balance and fleetness of foot, Greenwood and Healey stood at the end holding up fingers which the participants had to count, forcing them to look up as they moved.
Mr Gandhi first showed a fleetness of both mind and foot by leaping on the back of a motorbike at dawn and evading policemen who had established a cordon around the village so that he could meet the farmers last week.
Above all their captain, Michael Clarke, came through the game unscathed after his back injury, moving with an unexpected fleetness of foot.
Ford even wrote to the poet Marianne Moore, asking her to think up a name that would "convey, through association or other conjuration, some visceral feeling of elegance, fleetness, advanced features and design".
She learned her fleetness from Frank O'Hara, but O'Hara, one of the greatest poets of gratitude, was a little like Pac-Man: he moved forward only by ingesting the world.
Came by the name "Legs" from fleetness of foot as a package thief, and because he was a skinny youth.
Mr. Thibaudet captured both the demonic energy and the bluesy fleetness of the virtuosic piano part.
