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unhurrying

  • a word derived from hurry.
    hurry
    verb (used without object)
    to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed byup ).

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An unhurrying sergeant looked up and snapped into startled attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over six feet high, they moved unhurrying, smoking their cigarettes, turning their necks slowly from side to side like camels of the desert.

From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

The ending moved him strangely: Still with unhurrying chase, And unperturbèd face Deliberate speed, majestic instancy Came on the following Feet, And a voice above their beat— "Naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter Me."

From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser

Then, falling into place one behind the other, a string of a dozen airships dropped with unhurrying swiftness down the air in pursuit of the American fleet.

From The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Still with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, Came on the following Feet, And a Voice above their beat - "Naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter Me."

From Poems by Francis Thompson