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Like the nuns in Sister Agnes’ convent, the once-sheltered public responded with animalistic haste, selling out screenings nationwide.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

The houses that had been built with such haste during the banana fever had been abandoned.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Back hastes Æneas to his friends, and they 1072 Straight to Caieta steer, and anchor in her bay.

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

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

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

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

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

So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Hildebrand thence hasted, with blood all dabbled o'er, And to the noble Dietrich his sorry tidings bore.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

"Looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God."

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Scarcely believing his eyes he stooped and took it up, and holding it in reverent fingers watched her hasting along the yew-walk.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Again she took to flight, hasting along the edge of the stream, up into the heart of the gorge.

From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

I eagerly turned, and in the figure hasting toward me with outstretched hand,—as soon as I could read between the lines of mud on him,—I recognized my dear old teacher, Jesse Jones.

From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by William Meade Dame