Слово "quick". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

“He can gnaw through leather as clean as a knife an’ jes’ about half as quick.

And it just takes a quick, quick second.

You are quick, but not yet quick enough.

She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover’s egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world.

His was one of those rare organizations, endowed with an obedient intelligence like that of the dog; with a blind valor, a quick eye, and a prompt hand; to whom sight appeared only to be given to see if the king were dissatisfied with anyone, and the hand to strike this displeasing personage, whether a Besme, a Maurevers, a Poltiot de Mere, or a Vitry.

1489 And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret grief’s of wild, unknown men.

The dead refused to lie decently still, they insisted upon mingling with the quick.

"You really haven't had a cigarette since then?" "No," he said, and began to gnaw his thumb-nail. It was ragged, down to the quick. "That's wonderful!

His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick.

He was one of those characters which could only exist in that fierce fifteenth century, and in that half-nomadic corner of Europe, when the whole of Southern Russia, deserted by its princes, was laid waste and burned to the quick by pitiless troops of Mongolian robbers; when men deprived of house and home grew brave there; when, amid conflagrations, threatening neighbours, and eternal terrors, they settled down, and growing accustomed to looking these things straight in the face, trained themselves not to know that there was such a thing as fear in the world; when the old, peacable Slav spirit was fired with warlike flame, and the Cossack state was instituted—a free, wild outbreak of Russian nature—and when all the river-banks, fords, and like suitable places were peopled by Cossacks, whose number no man knew. Their bold comrades had a right to reply to the Sultan when he asked how many they were,