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hasty
1. “Knowing our luck they heard the door ‘open’ and are all making a hasty retreat
2. Bolt looks nervously about, beats a hasty retreat from the photo shop
3. The air bristled with the electric confusion of unbidden challenge and hasty counter
4. This hasty decision based on fear and dogma bothered him
5. We hustled through the, by now, usual steps: a rapid and perfunctory wash, followed by a hasty breakfast of bread and water
6. The wait was not long, but two girls who passed by made him wonder if he had been a little hasty
7. When Rayne returned they had a hasty silent meal; each absorbed with their own thoughts
8. A sly look appeared on his face as he stomped into the quarters of his sleeping men and woke them with shouts of ‘to arms’ and ‘wake up!’ He worked up a hasty plan and sent his men on their way to implement it
9. Maggie spots Billy and waves as she beats a hasty retreat and helps with the serving
10. 9 Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom
11. 3 Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence
12. But perhaps I’m being hasty and missing the point
13. Likewise, he felt his cheek – the deep cut suffered during his hasty climb through the pinnacles – and felt only smooth skin
14. But, before he found the courage to rejoin the others, the group of survivors had already begun their hasty retreat, leaving the cowardly Tetloan behind
15. the air, Jean decided it was time to beat a hasty retreat
16. Don’t be hasty
17. All I ask is that you at least think about it first – don’t make any hasty decisions
18. “Didn’t bank on my usefulness, did you? That should show you not to be so hasty to judge
19. Be careful not to jump into a hasty relationship with someone ill-suited for you
20. The noise of her hooves warned all in the road up ahead that a hasty rider was approaching and they needed to move to the side of the road quickly
21. He thanked the physician and as he turned to make a hasty exit, his mother and Helda came rushing in through the infirmary doors
22. And sure enough the former was drawn away from the Breton woman as she made her hasty escape
23. The airbus headed east, gaining a hasty momentum that seemed out of place in this landscape
24. ” Daniel could not understand my hasty departure, but he was trying
25. Surprised by his sudden approach, Aspen took a hasty step back, bumping into the wall behind her
26. and if, upon any particular point, he should form too hasty an opinion one year, when he comes, in the course of his lectures to reconsider the same subject the year thereafter, he is very likely to correct it
27. But maybe I was a bit hasty
28. ” We could now hear more comments being shouted from all along the line and now a barrage of fire opened up from one of our ‘Stokes Mortars’ and now a machine gun opened up shredding the banner and causing the Huns to beat a hasty retreat to the safety of the bottom of their trench
29. He looked at one stage like he might argue but the look on Ted’s face mad him think twice and he handed over the watch and beat a hasty retreat back to Battalion HQ
30. When Shakespeare told us that one swallow doth not a summer make, and Aristotle advised us to beware of hasty generalizations, they were saying the same thing
31. Aristotle warns us to beware hasty generalizations
32. Now, recognizing that generalizations, especially of the hasty variety, can be dangerous, I nevertheless submit the following observations, not hastily arrived at
33. There was one officer, however, far too hasty when paying off these natives
34. A widow can marry when she pleases though of course the community may frown on a hasty marriage the law does not prevent that at all
35. "Oh, hang the biscuits!" was Charlie's hasty answer
36. "Are they indeed? Well perhaps I were being a bit hasty then
37. It does appear he's up to his old tricks again, doesn't it? But let's not be too hasty, perhaps there's an explanation
38. As he neared Uncle Hobart, Mr Kneeler's nostrils flared and he took a hasty step backwards
39. A brutal kick to her ankle restored breath as the door slammed and the tires squealed the car’s hasty retreat
40. Waves and rain constantly entered hatches and portholes, our hasty silicon repairs back in port proving almost completely useless
41. We both watched Mia as she made her hasty escape
42. After moving their things aboard el Tiburón Limon and familiarizing Beth with its workings, he left her to tidy up while he went out to shop for supplies – or so he told her: perhaps he had been overly hasty
43. When Friday came, they ate a hasty meal at the Weisse Hirsch, then drove to Frau Bergheim’s farm
44. "Don't be too hasty
45. It was to no avail, the only tracks that were found were three, all giving the appearance of moving quickly, obviously, made by those who had been beating a very hasty retreat
46. hasty lap, perched in a wooded speed trap
47. “I see,” replied Giles, eying the soldiers with an inquisitive though hasty look
48. am Ashvatthama”, the latter replied and beat a hasty retreat
49. When she reached the corridor where the bathrooms were, she heard hasty steps behind her
50. Behind them, they could hear the hasty footsteps of the guards against the cobblestones
