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As I know him, it has been the absolute realization of his young desire, the unhasting, unresting life of a poet and student, beyond that of any other writer among us.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

All this passed through her mind, as a drift setting in from upstream, gliding before her consciousness, and floating on down stream in unhasting progression.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward

On and on, unhasting but unresting, we stolidly jogged, by great good fortune slipping across the "doldrums"—that hateful belt of calms about the line so much detested by all sailor-men—without losing the south-east wind.

From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.

He worshipped the dog's aloof dignity, his gentlemanly demeanour of unhasting grace in the woods, his well-bred far-away gaze as he sat on his haunches staring into the distance.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward

At short measured intervals he punctuates the night with his dry delivery, unhasting yet unresting, his sole idea to get his forty-seven-thousand up without a break before the morning.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir