promptitude

He seems to have acted very well, with promptitude and presence of mind.

These words have in common the idea of performing any act with ease and promptitude.

I imagine the first point among the principles which we must work out ought to be promptitude.

The degree of courage and promptitude shown will be taken into concern.

On all previous visits, he had been admitted with promptitude.

The promptitude with which the Emperor's orders were always executed is well known.

I was positively astounded by the promptitude of this "Yes."

We must act on the military principles of judgment, promptitude, and energy."

They came with a promptitude that The Shadow had not expected.

A report had gone in; the police had acted with promptitude.

The door was opened with admirable promptitude by Parker, the butler.

His friend's reply came with the pent promptitude of a gun going off.

Through the clutch of his tension, he felt that the order came with almost miraculous promptitude.

Promptitude might, perhaps, still have secured its escape, but on every side were disorder and delay.

But now two things happened with beautiful promptitude.

He got to his feet with promptitude, for he knew that no small matter would have brought Gibbs into such a place at all.

For this he was executed by the Emperor, with promptitude and despatch.

I rose and saw him spring upon the scaffold with such promptitude that he might almost have been said to fly.

But in the fall, The Shadow had acted with the same promptitude.

"One hundred dollars," replied Jim, with the promptitude of an automaton.

Linden took a grim satisfaction from the promptitude of their departure.

So he resolved to return to Paris, and carried out the resolution with his usual promptitude.

Decides with a calm promptitude, which rises towards the sublime.

Lamont Cranston, however, was the one who acted with most promptitude.

But The Shadow acted with a promptitude that was amazing.