hastes
- present tense form of haste (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The country folk having gone early to bed, tired with their day’s labor, L’Allegro hastes to the city, where the pleasures of life are prolonged further into the night.
From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John
The man that hastes to become rich often finds that he has only brought on ruin.
From Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse by Weir, Harrison
And, behold, yon bird despondingly turns away from his hen, and with whirring wings hastes to convince the woman of his love!
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, Prompt at the summons of his sire divine, My prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, 793 Fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
The Day a fairy maiden is, With flower-garlands gay, And as the Night approaches her, She blushing hastes away.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
