haste
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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
In the haste to disrupt the obesity epidemic, weight loss has been treated as the singular, undisputed metric of success, which experts say is problematic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Workers were paid by the ton, which both encouraged them to hack out coal with reckless haste and meant that any labor they expended making their environment safer or more comfortable went uncompensated.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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The glow retreats; done is the day of toil; It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring; Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil, Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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
She spake; the old dame tottering hastes away.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax 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
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
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
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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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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
"Precisely when the shadow of the Holy Cross falls due east," cried the dwarf; and turning round, he hasted on his way.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
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
These be King's men, hasting after the Master of the Mignons.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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
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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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