haste

I realized that replying to complicated requests or problems in anger or haste was never smart, so I kept his rule to slow my response time down eight hours for future correspondence.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

The haste of the transaction would seem to have given the buyers superior leverage, yet Walter negotiated a 25% increase on the $10 billion he spent on the team last October.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

A team of animal lovers has come to the rescue of pets people left behind in their haste in the area west of the wine-making capital of Bordeaux.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Among the residents evacuating surrounding areas is Olga Congacha, 50, who had to flee her village Robledo de Chavela, west of Madrid, in a haste.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

I tripped in my haste, and he caught me and lifted me clear of the boat, clear of the water, and held me close.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The glow retreats; done is the day of toil; It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring; Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil, Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

The country folk having gone early to bed, tired with their day’s labor, L’Allegro hastes to the city, where the pleasures of life are prolonged further into the night.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

It moves, it hastes away;—while I could wish it to remain forever, fixed as the Northern Star.

From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland

Let us remember "That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mote away; Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky."

From The Right of American Slavery by T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit

The moon hastes melancholy    Past, past the coast so dear, And in love’s transport holy    Shines Freya’s starlet clear.

From Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads by George Henry Borrow

A group of Templars hasted to him, seized him and repelled him from me.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

From Time Magazine Archive

It stood still in the midst of the heaven and hasted not to go down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over this step most of those who had thus hasted to the fray incontinently stumbled.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Wherefore the Priests hasted to finish their office, and the people departed in a sad silence; discoursing diuersly afterward of all these extraordinarie accidents.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward

She then rose up, quite deprived of her senses through joy, and ran crouching away on the road towards Moffat, as if hasting beyond her power to be at it.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

Thence, hasting by private stairs and passages, he came at length unseen to his own chamber, tore off his clothes, and threw himself upon his bed in the dark.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Then, as we looked up towards the summit of the hill, we saw a number of figures, very small in the distance, hasting pell-mell downwards.

From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang

Dost thou lament that life, urg'd-on too quickly, Rolls round its course in hasting revolution?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

And when she had done the deed She swooned, and those her followers hasting back Fell prone upon their knees before the corpse As to a goddess.

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Sir Lewis Morris