Literary notes about rapid (AI summary)
The term “rapid” in literature is employed to evoke a sense of swift, unrelenting motion or change, whether describing the quick succession of actions or the brisk evolution of events. It is used to capture fleeting physical movements—such as a character’s rapid glance or steps [1, 2]—and to emphasize the velocity of changes in nature, politics, or personal development [3, 4, 5]. Authors apply the word to describe everything from the immediate and intense sequence of events in dramatic scenes [6, 7] to the rapid pace of historical and scientific progress [8, 9]. In this way, “rapid” reinforces both the urgency of action and the transformative energy underlying a narrative’s momentum.
- An instant after, the broken door was removed, and the pale face of Athos appeared, who with a rapid glance took a survey of the surroundings.
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - “You mustn’t shout like that.” Varenka, hearing Kitty’s voice and her mother’s reprimand, went with light, rapid steps up to Kitty.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - With the rapid change of political, scientific, and economic interests in the last century, provision had to be made for new values.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - During the past three years Helen has continued to make rapid progress in the acquisition of language.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - The first generation having passed away, estates began to be parcelled out, and the change became more and more rapid with the progress of time.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Jeremie and Mathurin sat down in a corner and began a game, and the glasses were emptied in rapid succession into their thirsty throats.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - And, having made me pledge him in a bumper, he swallowed in rapid succession several goblets of the wine.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - Certainly, the history of no people on the globe can show anything like so rapid an advance.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - From the palace of Madayn their Eastern progress was not less rapid or extensive.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
