haste
noun
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity.
was hasting
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past progressiveof haste.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Time was hasting; one night I went down into the study; father was sitting there.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
To such reflections she was hasting with bent head back to her cottage, And trying to avoid a meeting with any of the few men and women about so early.
From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
In another moment I was hasting down the road, looking on all sides for a cab.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
NOW when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armour that the god had given her.
From The Iliad by Homer
And now behind him every armiger and squire, every spearman and light-foot archer, was hasting Edinburgh-ward, eager to be first to succour the young and headstrong chief of his great house.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
