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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

Now, she says the teams also check on the artefacts that were transported in great haste to safer places to make sure they remain in good condition.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

A sob welled up in Sarai’s throat and her moths slashed the air in their haste to reach him—to touch him and know if his spirit still flowed, if his skin was warm.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Lo! with outstretched arms he hastes to meet you, with tokens of welcome and the kiss of peace.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross

Nor less, meanwhile, Saturnia hastes to crown The war's mad tumult.

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

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

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

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 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

The miller hasted and drew his dam,65 Binnorie, O Binnorie; And there he found a drown'd woman; By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

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

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

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

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