fleet
/ˈfliːt/ adjective C2- Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
- Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Comparative fleeter · Superlative fleetest
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Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope’s Court, Fleet Street.”
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope’s Court looked like a coster’s orange barrow.
Without going into details, I may say that it defined the position of Great Britain towards the Triple Alliance, and fore-shadowed the policy which this country would pursue in the event of the French fleet gaining a complete ascendancy over that of Italy in the Mediterranean.
I am reckoned fleet of foot, but he outpaced me as much as I outpaced the little professional.
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