haste

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

Still, Browne cautioned against haste even as he urged action.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Earlier this year, NV Energy informed Liberty that it would no longer serve as its wholesale energy provider after mid-May next year, and urged Liberty to make haste to secure an alternate supplier.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Met Police chief Mark Rowley accused Polanski of amplifying "inaccurate and misinformed commentary" and Polanski later apologised for "sharing a tweet in haste".

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

In his haste the signs sometimes became blurred and he had to shake his hands and begin all over.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

So, borne upon her bow 730 Of myriad hues, unseen, the maiden hastes below.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

Him with speeches fair 145 Æneas hails, and hastes his errand to declare.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

In my soft bed, the rest which I desire, Forth from my frame does my sad soul retire, And hastes toward thee its eager way to make.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

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

Now he hastes away Into a distant land, and doth convey The ashes in a turf.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

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

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He hasted over the small drawbridge before which he had stood on guard, and drew it up hastily behind him.

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

I took out your heart with all imaginable care, and hasted away with it to France, as soon as I had committed your dear remains to the bosom of the earth.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The men, lurking beneath the bank, hold their breath; Dennis feels as though his very heart-beats must be heard; but the Spaniards pass, and disappear, and are now hasting up towards the camp.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

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

He still kept open house, and gave goodly cheer to all, ever borrowing more and more, spending and vending, wasting and hasting to scatter everything he had.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

"Never hasting, never resting," a fine life-motto, Cardie; but our time is nearly at an end, we must be going now.'

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Behold! where yonder That honest man, that faithful, brave, Dumont, Is hasting to thy aid—   Jane S. Dumont!

From Jane Shore A Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe