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

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

But like Colletti before him, with Walter having purchased the majority stake in the Lakers, Pelinka is going to have to crash the hourglass and build a winner with haste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

But the light was dim and in his haste he missed the bear.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Hours or days or years it may be, Before hopes realization they see; And no sooner it comes than it hastes away, And others rush after no longer to stay.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley

But fleeter far, young Lycus hastes to slip Through swords, through foes, and gains the walls, and tries To climb them, and a comrade's hand to grip.

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

She the acquaintances she loves, Her spacious fields and shady groves, Another visit hastes to pay.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding

But no! for deaf and blind with greed, To the council Judas hastes away, And there repeats in evil trade, The bargain once with Dathan made.

From King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth by William T. Stead

Your young king hastes not so with his marriage, and therein he acts wisely.

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

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

Jack and Lance thought the whole crowd had gone mad, as they hasted to join in the chorus.

From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood

For the nonce she was at mass, but after hearing it, she hasted to make ready her attire.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan

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

Your hasting away will leave me without food, and hunger will kill me.

From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll

Sun—or moon—that shines so brightly, 'Tis not sun, or moon that shines so brightly, 'Tis the bridegroom hasting to the marriage.

From An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics by Various

Behold, 'tis Paris, hasting there toward This tent.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

Soon they came hasting down the gully, Copstone leading.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang