These river beds are broad, "quicky," impassable torrents in the rainy season, and are shallow or practically dry during half the year, with only a narrow, lazy thread flowing among the bowlders.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks
5. Changed from "quicky".
"Wife in Name Only"
Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)
Mrs. Carn's been here all morning and- It was at this moment that Mrs. Carn, her eyelids red from weeping, an old bumpy, red worsted shawl over her head, came nervously into the room; and, without so much as even a nod to any of us, edged quicky out of the front door.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
Various