suddenness

Lady Montbarry surveyed herself in the glass, and wheeled round again, with her cat-like suddenness, to Mrs.

The curious flood of sentiment, which had led him to gamble for the child's picture, had merged with equal suddenness into passion at the coming of her later presentment.

An idea whisked through Anne's brain with a suddenness that made her jump.

But, after all, it was gone with such amazing suddenness that it left behind it a sense of unreality.

The decision at which Bill had arrived with such dramatic suddenness in the middle of Piccadilly was the same at which some centuries earlier Columbus had arrived in the privacy of his home.

'My devil-may-care acquaintance,' said Mr Chester--'really if you do not draw some nicer distinctions, your career will be cut short with most surprising suddenness. Don't you know that the letter you brought to me, was directed to my son who resides in this very place?

With a perfectly breath-taking suddenness several mast sheaves of varicolored rockets were vomited skyward out of the black throats of the Castle towers, accompanied by a thundering crash of sound, and instantly every detail of the prodigious ruin stood revealed against the mountainside and glowing with an almost intolerable splendor of fire and color.

If the suddenness of her calamity, and the whirling wheels of the time, had stunned the Doctor's daughter into awaiting the result in idle despair, it would but have been with her as it was with many.

Stop him!" The cattle came upon me with like suddenness, staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, "Holloa, young thief!" One black ox, with a white cravat on - who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air - fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!

The unexpectedness and suddenness of crises remains and will remain a formidable threat

There is the suddenness factor of the issue, but again, we are seeing restraint from both sides.

"Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain owe their livelihoods to Kumar Bhattacharyya." Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon, Labour's leader in the House of Lords, said: "The suddenness of losing Kumar has shocked and deeply saddened his many friends and colleagues in and beyond Parliament.

However, the Observer of February, 1959, said work on the site had stopped with `dramatic suddenness' and men employed by the main contractor were given a week's notice.

It's unclear how the Bears would defend the slot if Callahan were unavailable, but none of their options -- including Sherrick McManis, Amukamara and Kyle Fuller -- boast Callahan's quickness, a key asset in handling Edelman and his suddenness and special rapport on option routes with Brady.