Hasting

Examples

• The stout yeoman Locksley was the first who was aware of it, as he was hasting to the outwork, impatient to see the progress of the assault. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Have I not cause to think that the hour is hasting but too fast when the veil must be rent for me? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But as Warren Hastings looked at gold and thought of buying Daylesford, so Joshua Rigg looked at Stone Court and thought of buying gold. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In 1788 Warren Hastings, a second great Indian administrator, was impeached and acquitted (1792). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Together with the courage and conduct, said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, by which they distinguished themselves at Hastings and elsewhere. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A man can do but his best, answered Hubert; but my grandsire drew a good long bow at Hastings, and I trust not to dishonour his memory. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• These twenty nobles I leave to Hubert, who has this day drawn as brave a bow as his grandsire did at Hastings. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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