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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

President Masoud Pezeshkian is a functionary, selected in haste in 2024 to replace Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed into a mountain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

“Do make haste, Orddu, and take them off to the shed. It’s been a terribly long morning.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Thus often, as I chase my hope from me, Straightway she hastes her unto Delia's eyes; Fed with some pleasing look, there shall she be, And so sent back.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow

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

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

Far off Acestes, wondering, from a height The coming of their friendly ships descries, And hastes to meet them.

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

And, behold, yon bird despondingly turns away from his hen, and with whirring wings hastes to convince the woman of his love!

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

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

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

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

Soon they came hasting down the gully, Copstone leading.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

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

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

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

But come near to me, David; I have some last words to say, and there is One at my side hasting me forward.”

From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr