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1611 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 531 From driest Rocks draw rapid-rowling Torrents.

1733 G. Nisbet Caledon's Tears i. i. 8 Through Rocks and rapid running streams.

1749 G. West tr. Pindar Odes (1753) I. 6 If..the rapid-footed Steed Could with joy thy Bosom move.

1789 J. Free Tyrocinium Geographicum Londinense iv. 15 Above the rapid flowing Hellespont.

1817 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 182 It was very pleasant to come out of the woods to such a place, one of the many contrasts which are presented by our rapid growing country.

1820 G. Hake Mem. 80 Years lxiii. 262 A young Bavarian officer of the rapid-mannered kind.

1849 Times 23 Nov. 5/4 A rapid running fire was still kept up along the margin of the bay.

1864 Times 23 Apr. 7/1 Prussians..with only their rolled greatcoats slung across their bodies, and their trusty, rapid-firing rifle in their hands.

1866 Galaxy 1 May 18 He hated driving the pony, which was a rapid-footed little beast.

1872 J. W. Goodspeed Life Col. James Fisk 164 This is the most Rapid Selling Book in America.

1878 J. T. Reid Art Rambles in Highlands & Islands vi. 89 The rapid-flowing waters of Niagara.

1892 Davenport (Iowa) Tribune 29 Apr. Fruit-growers are compelled to thin out the jack rabbits occasionally, or the large, rapid breeding creatures would eat up everything they could plant.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/3 These creatures..are chickens fed so generously that they are marketable..three weeks before the most rapid-growing Aylesbury duckling is saleable.

1915 Fourth Rep. Factory Investigating Comm. (N.Y. State) ii. i. 119 It may be long enough in the case of rapid-selling goods to allow disposal of most of the stock before payment on the same is necessary.

1922 T. S. Eliot in Dial (Chicago) Dec. 662 The encouragement of the cheap and rapid-breeding cinema.

1925 Times 11 Feb. 14/6 (advt.) In one day Rapid-Hardening ‘Ferrocrete’, mixed with three parts of sand, develops the strength required by the British Standard Specification at 28 days.

1930 A. H. Morgan Field Bk. Ponds & Streams viii. 122 A single species often lives in springs or ponds which are different in other ways, shallow or (deep), rapid flowing or slow, so long as their waters are uniformly cold.

1932 World Today Feb. 213/2 By ten o'clock the narrow strip of timber some three miles long and an eighth of a mile wide was well aflame and had arrived at the rapid-travelling stage.

1933 B. Moore tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iv. 143 The only Naiäd in the world unknown To rapid-running Dian.

1957 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 5 Nov. 1/5 Soviet writers..talked of sending aloft apes and such rapid-breeding creatures as rodents, molluscs and insects.

1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization ii. 20 Generally speaking, rapid-selling stock is placed on open fixtures.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 238/3 An interior rapid-closing floor valve NW 32.

1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Nov. 95 A spirited, rapid-footed solo.

2004 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 17 Sept. 3 d Feral hogs are rapid-breeding survivors that can travel miles a day through heavy cover.

2006 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 23 Dec. b1 Soon, by the edge of knee-deep, rapid-running water, we have to abandon the buggy.