Much of the fun in J. K. Rowling's books comes from their swiftness and sure, deft touch.
They are also called wind scorpions because of their swiftness, camel spiders because of their humped heads, and solpugids because of the former scientific name.
Omit "both" or make it "in both their swiftness and their seriousness," to keep this parallel.
The charges are unusual, both in their swiftness and seriousness, and reflect the Kremlin's anxiety about the popular anger that emerged after the flood, which left at least 171 dead, according to an official count.
Sept. 2, 1939 — As a result of yesterday's events, surprising in their swiftness to many who still had hopes that a conflict in Europe might be at the last moment avoided, a state of war now exists between Germany and Poland.
All of these pieces depend on swiftness and lightness for their effect; flaring up into momentary life and then fading out before they acquire any burdensome solemnity, and this, too, seems true to the essential nature of the form.
Legend claimed that mares of the area were sired by the wind (hence their amazing swiftness, passed onto their foals), and one modern hypothesis suggests that the bond between Iberian humans and horses was the initial inspiration for the centaur, which was believed to come from the area of the Tagus River.
Everyone who believes cops don't get punished for their mistakes should be pleasantly surprised by the swiftness of the charge of voluntary manslaughter that have been slapped on North Carolina cop Randall Kerrick.
The swiftness with which the Republican National Committee is taking to the airwaves is a marked departure from four years ago, when the Democratic Party began running issue advertisements on behalf of President Clinton weeks before the cash-strapped Republicans could start commercials for their presidential candidate, Bob Dole.
The swallow is also notably cited in several of William Shakespeare's plays for the swiftness of its flight; for example: "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings" from Act 5 of Richard III, and "I have horse will follow where the game Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain".
