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

In their haste the two friends got separated and Euryalus took the wrong path.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

A mighty blow Pygmalion then lets fall, Straight from th' impulsive engine starts the ball, Answ'ring its master's just design, it hastes, And from the hole scarce twice two clubs' length rests.

From Poems on Golf by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society

Zephyrus, fond lover, comes to woo; With airy step he hastes the pastures through, And steals a kiss from Luna as she nods Drowsy with fragrant dew.

From Pan and Æolus: Poems by Charles Hamilton Musgrove

My vengeance now is won, And ere to-morrow's sun shall set, Thou, haughty lady, shalt forget The lover who now hastes to thee, And smile alone, alone on me.

From Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott

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

Soft voices and light laughter wake the street, 105Like notes of woodbirds, and where'er the eye Threads the long way, plumes wave, and twinkling feet Fall light, as hastes that crowd of beauty by.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard

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

I had private notice ere the messenger came, and hasted unto Mr. Speaker Lenthall, ever my friend.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Count Henrik hasted forward with eagerness and curiosity, holding a torch in his hand, and accompanied by three men-at-arms.

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

So Romulus when proud ambition, His former vertue and renowne had stayned: Did by the Senators receiue his end, But soft what boades Titinnius hasting speede.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous

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

My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew’th.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

The night was falling; through an embrasure and across the gardened valley I saw the lamp-lighters hasting along Princes Street with ladder and lamp, and looked on moodily.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Fat carrion crows hurried their unwieldy flight and, higher in the air, a frequent lone hawk sailed out of the west, while now and then a road-runner cut across his path with hasting feet.

From The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly