haste
noun
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity.
unhasting
-
a word derived from
haste.
Example Sentences
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He might have been composing a hymn to the unhasting and unresting march of that divinity.
From Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Time, "like a star, unhasting, yet unresting," moved on.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
The pulsing of the engines, unhasting, unresting, ran through her fabric in ceaseless succession of gentle tremors, while the rumble of their revolutions resembled the refrain of an old, quiet song.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth Time's unhasting stride, Following, following, him whose eyes Look not to Heaven.
From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides
He fished unhasting, religious, like some good Catholic adding one more to the row of beads already told, as though he would fish himself, gravely, without complaint, into the other world.
From The Patrician by John Galsworthy
