Example Sentences

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August 18th.—Orders just gone round that there are to be no lights after dark, so I am hasting to write this.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

In the Lover’s eyes there gleamed Radiance of all things dreamed— “Nay, detain me not,” he cried “I am hasting to my bride; What have roads to do with me, Love’s at home in Arcady!”

From Fires of Driftwood by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone