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Hastily   /hˈeɪstəli/   Listen
adverb
Hastily  adv.  
1.
In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
2.
Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. "We hastily engaged in the war."
3.
Passionately; impatiently.





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"Hastily" Quotes from Famous Books



... of money, whatever kind of coins they were, had been tidily sewn up in a shred of leather; remnants of old gloves of all colours; and the Narbonne jar contained six hundred and eighty-seven of them. These, of course, were hastily picked up from the path whereon they had first fallen, were counted out at home, and the glittering contents of most of those little leather bags ripped up were immediately discovered. Oh dear! oh dear! such a sight! ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... length managed to rise to my feet, and, grasping my candle in my hand, to move backward into the bedroom. As I backed into it something so like a moan seemed to proceed from the closed cupboard that I accelerated my backward movement to a considerable degree. I hastily blew out the candle, threw myself upon the bed and drew the bedclothes over my head, keeping, however, one eye and one ear still ...
— Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels • Stephen Leacock
... in thought, and the ash was getting so long, that a young student—of the age that knows no mercy-was struck by these twin phenomena. I saw him nudge a friend, hastily roll a cigarette, and, doffing his hat, ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... practiced on his own person), had unaccountably absented himself from the ceremony at the last moment—slipping out of the ranks in order, as he said, to bid a last farewell to his two aged and widowed parents. He was discovered in a wine-shop and brought before a hastily summoned Court-martial. There his old military courage seems to have returned to him. He demonstrated by a reference to the instructions laid down in the Militiaman's Year-book that no mistake in saluting ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... Hastily they all jumped, and not a minute too soon, for some gaping holes appeared in the thatch, and there was a rumble ...
— The Adventure League • Hilda T. Skae


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