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Definition of Fleetest
1. fleet [adj] - See also: fleet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleetest
Literary usage of Fleetest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... with a force of cavalry and auxiliary cohorts, and a selection of the fleetest
troops from the legions, defeated him and drove him into the desert. ..."
2. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms by Charles Buck (1831)
"... that a per son mounted on the fleetest horse, woulc not be able to gallop from
one end of it shade to the other in one hundred years II. ..."
3. Chronicles of the City of Perugia, 1492-1503 by Francesco Maturanzio (1905)
"... his palace stables kept fifty horses, all of them of the fleetest; three there
were that he would not have sold for eight hundred golden ducats apiece. ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... faithful servants now, to Verulam, bear ; With loud and long lament, the royal
corse. Return the royal sons, on fleetest steeds, Caradoc and, king now, ..."
5. Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure: A Volume of Facts Gathered from by Charles Jesse Jones (1899)
"Little did he dream then he would become the champion hunter of this slyest and
fleetest animal on the American continent. The greyhound has ever been ..."
6. The Useful Metals and Their Alloys, Including Mining Ventilation, Mining by John Scoffern (1869)
"... at a velocity considerably beyond that of the bounding deer or the fleetest
racehorse. Other constructions, such as the Lattice and Warner Bridges, ..."
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