“Before them was a door which apparently led into the grand apartments; this was fastly secured, but it yielded to their united strength, and they entered a lofty hall, whose concave top was supported by pillars.”

— 1843, Thomas Archer, Roderick Dhu, Clan Alpine's Chief, or, the Scottish outlaw:

“A reuerend man that graz’d his cattell ny, / Sometime a bluſterer that the ruffle knew / Of Court of Cittie, and had let go by / The ſwifteſt houres obſerued as they flew, / Towards this afflicted fancy faſtly drew: / And priuiledg’d by age deſires to know / In breefe the grounds and motiues of her wo.”

— 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signatures K2, recto – K2, verso:

“Another time, my Mother seeing them come fastly to her house, my brother gave the key of his desk to my sister, bidding her convey the money somewhither; […]”

— a. 1661, Isaac Tullie, A Narrative of the Siege of Carlisle, in 1644 and 1645. […], Whitehaven, Cumbria: Michael Moon’s Bookshop, published 1840 (1988 facsimile), →ISBN, page 13: