173 adjectives to describe hastes

Yet did he deem some Christian troop Was in the darkness hovering by; And at the thought, with terror struck, He turned in eager haste to fly!

In feverish haste, I began to throw the pillows back over the quiet limbs, the accusing face.

Our best rains are heard mostly on roofs, and winds in chimneys; and when by choice or compulsion we are pushed into the heart of a storm, the confusion made by cumbersome equipments and nervous haste and mean fear, prevent our hearing any other than the loudest expressions.

Precautions against undue haste or readiness to destroy lives that might, after all, grow up to health and vigour are provided by law.

I heard JOHN SMITH say the same thing in an eating saloon over a month ago, and out of twenty gentlemen present, four were reporters, but they didn't take out their note books in breathless haste and put down the Hon.

O'Flynn was walking over people in his frantic haste to reach the Colonel.

I pressed on in desperate haste, scarcely, however, knowing what I did, being at once overpowered with fatigue, loss of sleep, and harassing emotions.

In a dozen sentences the girl poured out her story, the words tumbling pell-mell over each other in headlong haste.

Up these the fugitives struggled, and the strong elbowed the weak out of their way in a mad haste to escape.

So it was no longer the school-mistress that I walked with, butLet us not be in unseemly haste.

Wisely to further this necessary organic process is a blessing to all parties; violent haste will only curb it and cause reactions.

You married me without certain proof of your husband's death, such was your indecent haste to call yourself a princess.

In a moment Henshaw was after her, but in his blind haste he either tripped or stumbled and fell heavily.

When now the Sun his golden buckler raised, And genial light through heaven diffusive blazed, Sohráb in mail his nervous limbs attired, For dreadful wrath his soul to vengeance fired; With anxious haste he bent the yielding cord, Ring within ring, more fateful than the sword; Around his brows a regal helm he bound; His dappled steed impatient stampt the ground.

In this section of Antwerp, nearly all the old buildings have been torn down and new ones erected during the last few years; and in many other sections the same work of widening streets and erecting new buildings in place of the old, is being done with reckless haste.

He returned home with the utmost haste, and found his uncle and brothers waiting for him in extreme anxiety.

Thus he spoke and listened; for now was heard in the distance Clattering of horses' hoofs drawing near, and the roll of the wagon, Which, with furious haste, came thundering under the gateway.

Then it was Jot who sprang up in tremulous haste.

"If the king has proclaimed that he intends to stop late in any place, you may be sure that he will start very early in the morning, and with his sudden haste destroy every one's plans.

she saw a very glossy black hat come skipping down the steps, felt a violent twitch backward, and, to save herself from a fall, sat down on the lower step with most undignified haste.

he asks, in apparent haste.

A man calling with a bundle of puns detained him so long that he found that he would not be able to reach the 11 A.M. boat without he made unusual haste.

But, after all, this was nothing to what it might have been in broad daylight, for what with the darkness of night, and the little preparation the Spaniards could make for such a business, and the extreme haste with which they discharged their guns (many not understanding what was the occasion of all this uproar), nearly all the shot flew so wide of the mark that not above one in twenty struck that at which it was aimed.

If they made little haste, it was because they were naturally indolent and did not care to obey.

In frenzied haste he seized the heavy scarf she had thrown around her shoulders upon leaving the cabin and wound it about her face and head.

173 adjectives to describe  hastes