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| Alphabetical [« »] sped 5 speech 5 speechless 3 speed 20 speeded 2 speedier 2 speedily 3 | Frequency [« »] 20 self 20 shores 20 sometimes 20 speed 20 stars 20 use 20 veins | Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things Concordances speed |
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1 I| To scan the powers that speed all life below;~ But most 2 I| thunderbolts~ Can neither speed upon their courses through,~ 3 II| constrained to this,~ And what the speed appointed unto them~ Wherewith 4 II| plains.~ ~ Now what the speed to matter's atoms given~ 5 II| beyond a doubt,~ Outstrip in speed, and be more swiftly borne~ 6 II| Wherefore all,~ With equal speed, though equal not in weight,~ 7 III| body feels.~ If the dire speed of spear that cleaves the 8 III| seen to happen with such speed~ As what the mind proposes 9 III| thy heart.~ Thou shalt not speed in undertakings more,~ Nor 10 IV| These images, and what the speed assigned~ To them across 11 IV| Through unimaginable space to speed~ Within a point of time, - 12 IV| farther must they go~ And speed through manifold the length 13 IV| and true with what swift speed~ The images of things are 14 IV| peril, and to seek with speed~ Their opposites! Again, 15 V| because those skiey powers~ Of speed aloft do vanish and decrease~ 16 V| valour, or at least~ By speed of foot or wing. And many 17 VI| the other's body without speed,~ From whence that dry sound 18 VI| with heat.~ ~ And, now, the speed and stroke of thunderbolt~ 19 VI| shown with what stupendous speed~ Those bodies fly and how 20 VI| fountain surge aloft,~ And speed in exhalations into air~