Hasten

Examples

• She did not hasten along. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Though her nephew had had no particular reason to hasten back on her account, she had not lived above six-and-thirty hours after his return. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And with that she had to content herself, and hasten on to the expectant group on the steps. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Should I hasten from it altogether, pity--forgive me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Hasten to take off your wet things, said he; and before you go, good- night--good-night, my darling! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She would gladly have stopped at the door to listen, as she came out; but her mistress just then calling, she was obliged to hasten away. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The early official history of the Royal Society (Sprat, 1667) says that this proposal hastened very much the adopt ion of a plan of organization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We hastened to the palace of the Protectorate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Miss Ophelia hastened into the room, and tried to raise and silence her; but in vain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Worcester bowed low and hastened out of sight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Gurth accordingly hastened his pace, in order to gain the open common to which the lane led, but was not so fortunate as to accomplish his object. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Instead he grasped his friend's arm and hastened him forward in the direction of the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I am much obliged, said Mary, hastening away again, but I have little time for reading. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And the rays were hastening in in thin lines of light, to return to the strengthened moon, that shook upon the water in triumphant reassumption. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The solitary walk of the last two hours had wrought its effect on me--it had set the idea in my mind of hastening my departure from Limmeridge House. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I told her the reasons which induced me to think of hastening my departure, exactly as I have told them here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• McPherson was hastening up to join Hovey, but was embarrassed by Hovey's trains occupying the roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all hastening in the direction of the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If Mr. Snagsby hastens home to save his little woman the trouble of looking for him, he might set his mind at rest on that score. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• All that surrounds him hastens to decay; all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors and made to support the party. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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