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Unconsciously he had been hastening his pace with every stride, urged onward by an unaccountable anxiety, so that finally he almost ran into the office and up to the desk where the telephone stood.

From Tales of Chinatown by Rohmer, Sax

Mrs. Crymble had been hastening to the door, the sound of her suitor's wagon-wheels summoning her.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

While Fate, in the shape of Reuben May, had been hastening events toward a disastrous climax, the course of circumstances in Polperro had not gone altogether smoothly.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

Since 1800, Neptune, in his orbit from F to E, had been hastening Uranus in his orbit D from C to B, and also drawing it farther from the sun.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

Indeed, he had been hastening his footsteps full of keen apprehension when the stranger had accosted him.

From Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by Le Queux, William