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rapidly

/ˈɹæpɪdli/ adverb B1
  1. With speed; in a rapid manner. · She packed her case rapidly and hurried out.
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Noirtier was a true prophet, and things progressed rapidly, as he had predicted.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 118 · C1
“Sire, I have come as rapidly to Paris as possible, to inform your majesty that I have discovered, in the exercise of my duties, not a commonplace and insignificant plot, such as is every day got up in the lower ranks of the people and in the army, but an actual conspiracy—a storm which menaces no less than your majesty’s throne.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 96 · C1
The thought had hardly passed through my mind when the man whom we were watching caught sight of the number on our door, and ran rapidly across the roadway.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 22 · B2
You think he is tracked, pursued, captured; he is advancing as rapidly as his own eagles.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 117 · C1

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