I am resolved to retire from the world, with all its flatteries and deceits, and will hide myself in solitude, without any other care than to compose my thoughts, and regulate my hours by a constant succession of innocent occupations, till, with a mind purified from all earthly desires, I shall enter into that state, to which all are hastening, and in which I hope again to enjoy the friendship of Pekuah.

Instead of hastening to announce the good news to Ridoux, he proceeded to roam through the streets, assailed by his thoughts.

But the best joys of the past and present are linked to that future beyond the grave to which we are hastening....

I was hastening away, for my heart was full, and the effort to check my tears almost choked me; when he raised his head, and, stretching his hand towards me, said, 'I want to tell you something more, madam, if you will not think me bold; but my heart reproaches me every time I see your kind face; I feel as if I were imposing upon you, and fancy that, did you know more about me, you would deem me unworthy of your interest and attention.

All the elements are thrown into confusion, and nature appears to be hastening to her ancient chaos.

" This was a most important step in hastening the reduction of the invention to a practical, workable basis and I wish here to bear testimony to the great services of Professor Henry in making this possible.

With this view, he quitted the room, and was hastening towards the shop, when he observed a figure on the back stairs.

Bathed in soft, voluptuous tints, hazed and mellowed, into what weird, strange country were they hastening?

I was hastening to repair my error with apologies and self-accusations, when the door opened and an elderly lady entered the room.

After the messengers left, and as father and Uncle Jacob were hastening preparations for our own departure, new troubles beset us.

Below this well was still another pit, filled with knives, into which, when they were disposed to a merciful hastening of the torture, they let him fall.

Other people only partially clad were hastening to-wards them.

The double speed of the Boreal and the other, hastening opposite ways, must have been thirty-eight or forty knots, and the meeting was accomplished in certainly less than five minutes: yet into that time I crowded years of life.

Both master and servants were hastening to a tribunal, where nothing of "respect of persons" could be feared or hoped for.

The thought of preferring a capital accusation against, and hastening the death of, such a man as Mr. Falkland, was by no means an opiate to reflection.

And lo! extended on the 'bier, The form of the departed year Closely wrapt, in snowy shroud, Hastening to join the sable crowd Of yearsthat passed before the flood, And left their pathway stained with blood; For oh, what horrors must appear, Written on each departed year?

Two attendants only remained at their station, one of whom was employed in hastening the movements of the embarrassed waggoners, while the other was engaged in arranging some portion of his dress which had become displaced.

"Let's go to the fore-top, Tom," said Fred, seizing his friend by the arm and hastening to the shrouds.

On the others hastening up they saw the cause of his astonishment.

Two maids were now always hastening to him with a frightened air at the sound of his voice, or the ringing of his bell.

He was capricious and intractable, complaining of Toni and the other two officials because they were not hastening repairs on the vessel.

Approach him strangers three, Barefooted, cowled; their eyes Scan the lone, hastening solitary With dumb surmise.

And in the darkness I crossed it, there and then, hastening forward with outstretched hands which presently came against the masonry.

Then, hastening to the angry steed, Malagigi made him tractable by whispering his master's name in his ear; and, springing on his back, rode swiftly away.

Hastening onward, he entered the castle before they had even become aware of his approach, and secured three of them.