Day 1,025: breakneck

They were riding along at breakneck speed/at a breakneck pace.

Artwork of the day 
Fast Clipper (Packet) ship, Dreadnought, under Captain Samuel Samuels
Currier and Ives
Date: 1860
Style: Romanticism
Genre: marina

Word of the day 
breakneck: carelessly fast and dangerous:

Quote of the day
“You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!