Nautauquas, my brother, is a swift runner, yet I am fleeter than he.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
They might have proved themselves fleeter navigators had they had the sextant and chronometer to help them along.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
He saw the battle of the molecules, the partitioning asunder of the elements; saw sound falling far behind its lighter-winged, fleeter-footed brother; saw the inequality of this race, "swifter than the weaver's shuttle," and felt that he was present at the very beginnings of Time and Space.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker