1974, Viscount Arthur Hamilton Lee Lee & ‎Alan Clark, A good innings: the private papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, Meanwhile, in default of other and more useful occupation I was pressing on seriously with the production of this memoir, guided and inspired by Ruth's diaries, and supported by the ministrations of 'Hardie', our loyal, swifthanded, and unruffle-able secretary.
1974, Women of Korea - Issues 61-72, Simple people imagined his swifthanded correctness of mustering, dispersing and moving his units only through a story about the "magic of shortening distance" found in a legend
1997, Thomas Carlyle, ‎Clyde de L. Ryals, & ‎Jane Welsh Carlyle, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850, His maid is the queerest little body you ever saw; Recca ("Dumpy" Recca he calls her), a little black-eyed loud-voiced swifthanded Fenella of a creature, hardly above 3 1/2 feet high, for she has a terrible crook in her back;
2015, Robert K. DeArment, Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West - Volume 1, Bill Standifer's spreading reputation asa straight-shooting, swifthanded gunfighter sometimes was enough to defuse potentially violent confrontations, as in the summer of 1889 when IOA Ranch manager Rollie Burns came to the sheriff with a problem.
