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

So is there a sweet spot, somewhere between voting in haste and having your ballot go to waste?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

In a statement on Friday, Polanski apologised for "sharing a tweet in haste," adding that he should not have commented on the police response via social media.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

“Well, Jane, who is it from? What is it about? What does he say? Well, Jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my love.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

The Day a fairy maiden is, With flower-garlands gay, And as the Night approaches her, She blushing hastes away.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke

Then deeply plunge “Beneath the foaming gush thy head, where full “It spouts its waters; and thy error cleanse, “As clean thy limbs thou washest.”—To the stream The king as bidden hastes.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

And, behold, yon bird despondingly turns away from his hen, and with whirring wings hastes to convince the woman of his love!

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

Pleased to wear the crown, A forum good Acestes hastes to frame, And laws to gathered senators proclaim.

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

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

She never thought of her appearance or her dress; she hasted to Neil, and he folded her to his heart and for the first time touched her white cheek with his lips.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

He snatched up his spear, and hasted away to quarrel with his marriage relative Elesa.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

"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

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

Soon they came hasting down the gully, Copstone leading.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

Far away their bones are wasting, But I hear their spirits call— "Is our Mighty Mother hasting To avenge her children's fall?"

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland

Reuben Ramble Ran a Ridiculous Rattling Race on a Railway, And beat the train in hasting to get a book at Cole's Book Arcade.

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole