hurries

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In Freetown's magnificent harbor, gaily painted paddle boats carrying names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, a piece of her old self, impoverished, Hard to greet, she traverses the houseroofs, Hurries with unhandsome thrift of silver, Goes dispiritedly, glad to finish.

From Men and Women by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

Now, a piece of her old self, impoverished, Hard to greet, she traverses the house-roofs, Hurries with unhandsome thrift of silver,155 Goes dispiritedly, glad to finish.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Hurries back to Ayrshire with the intention of becoming a candidate for Parliament, ib.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by Boswell, James

Then Gunnar sang a song— Each who hurls the gory javelin Hath some honour of his own, Now my helpmeet wimple-hooded Hurries all my fame to earth.

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe