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General de Gaulle has spoken overhastily in the past; he may have done so once again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only when he was smoothed and tranquil, and in a temper to receive it, she would give an account of her actions, if haply he had overhastily taken offence.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)