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fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster. Addison.

hey] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

uspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.

Quick; rapid. Pui tosto ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), faster; more rapid.

gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.

To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.

o on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the s…

Fig.: To unite closely or intimately. Two women faster welded in one love. Tennyson.