speed
/spiːd/ interjection C2- Called by the soundman when the recording equipment has reached running speed and is ready to go.
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“Sire, I believe it to be most urgent, but I hope, by the speed I have used, that it is not irreparable.”
Yes, I heard this news, and knew it even before you could; for three days ago I posted from Marseilles to Paris with all possible speed, half-desperate at the enforced delay.”
Danglars and Caderousse set off upon their errand at full speed; but ere they had gone many steps they perceived a group advancing towards them, composed of the betrothed pair, a party of young girls in attendance on the bride, by whose side walked Dantès’ father; the whole brought up by Fernand, whose lips wore their usual sinister smile.
The duke left the royal presence with the speed of a young man; his really sincere royalism made him youthful again.
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