They ran swifter.

The wind was at our backs," he explained, "and the Sea Sprite runs swifter than ever.

"They were only one minute late, and they ran swifter than a bird flies to get home before daybreak."

Suddenly someone cried: 'Hold on a little longer, I see him in the distance; and his armour shines brighter, and his horse runs swifter, than yesterday.'

The stream narrowed; the water ran swifter; rocky ledges rose on both sides, gradually getting higher and higher.

Then suddenly Morgoth sent forth great rivers of flame that ran down swifter than Balrogs from Thangorodrim, and poured over all the plain; and the Mountains of Iron belched forth fires of many poisonous hues, and the fume of them stank upon the air, and was deadly.

The river was more dangerous here; it ran swifter, the eddies were more sudden and violent.

Hammy is the most agile of the three, running swifter and jumping higher.

She felt within herself the same moving power that she sensed in the Duke, although in her it ran swifter, lighter.