Example Sentences

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“I am hastening to let you know that the experiments on the production of high speed protons have been successful beyond our expectations,” Lawrence wrote to Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell on July 17.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I see it all again; I see it as in a dream; then darkness falls, and in the glare of gas-lighted streets, I am hastening along, solitary and sad, to my lonely home.

From The Leavenworth Case by Green, Anna Katharine

But as I am hastening by my uncle's direction to my estates near Dreux, where I expect to meet him, I fear I must not linger by the way.

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

I feel quite sure the disease is making rapid progress, but this gives me no uneasiness or alarm, nor have I experienced any feeling but that I am hastening home.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice

"Monsieur, I am hastening to the trysting-place, And my costume will be suitable to the occasion, believe me!"

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Merrick, Leonard