hasten
verb (used without object)
unhastened
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a word derived from
hasten.
Example Sentences
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Even thus Turnus draws lingeringly backward, with unhastened steps, and soul boiling in anger.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
The day went on, as days will go, unstayed, unhastened by the human souls, through which they glide silent and awful.
From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
Their passing in the darkness was accompanied by the sound of the unhastened tread of many hobnailed boots.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
The clatter of his own steady, unhastened heart-beat was all that broke upon the stillness.
From Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green
So this bit of cruelty was put a stop to, and the poor old creature, with a boil on her back, slept her last sleep unhastened by the hangman.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
