Quick

I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

He's a quick runner.

The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.

That was a quick meal.

Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.

You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

She has a very quick temper.

He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.

The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:

Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.

The inmost oratory of my soul, Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead, Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.

she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight.

When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.

And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.

[…] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,

Note that quick clay is a subet of brittle material; all quick clay is brittle, but not all brittle clay is quick.) Glaciomarine clay turns into quick clay after extensive pore water leaching by ground- and rainwater.

Get rich quick.

Come here, quick!

If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?

The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.

This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.

How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!

O see the fate of him whose guard was lowered!— A single misstep and we leave the quick.

the quick and the dead

Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks

I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.