haste
noun
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity.
unhasting
-
a word derived from
haste.
Example Sentences
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The driver swung himself down and came toward her with the unhasting swiftness of one trained to the unexpected.
From The Flying Mercury by Edmund Frederick
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 Stewart Edward White
Shorty was moving toward Mexico, unhasting and with a certain sureness of purpose characteristic of him.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
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
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
