haste
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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
Still, Browne cautioned against haste even as he urged action.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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It stood still in the midst of the heaven and hasted not to go down.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the messenger hasted him all the night, and stayed him not until that he was come at daybreak to the gate of the Castle.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
Then she hasted away to don the cap and gown which she had kept against the coming of a change of fortune.
From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena
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
Then the countryman brought whatever he could save, and the women and children their movable chattels, hasting to some distant place of concealment.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
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
It was his hasting to bless Esau which drove Rebekah to checkmate him by winning the blessing for her favourite.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
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
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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