Having accomplished this enterprise, Hasting discovered that, while deceiving, he had himself been deceived.
In 845, Hasting is reported to have attacked Paris, in company with Bjoern Ironside, the son of Ragnar Lodbrok.
Suddenly, however, as the coffin was deposited before the altar and the mass commenced, Hasting sprang up, flung away his shroud, and stood in flashing armor before the astonished populace.
Being poorly versed in geography, Hasting mistook this city for Rome, and resolved to capture it by strategem.
Have I not cause to think that the hour is hasting but too fast when the veil must be rent for me?
Her ear had caught the full roar of the forest lower down; the swift rushing of clouds, the moon, to the eye, hasting swifter still, had crossed her vision.
It was not slaughter, however, that Hasting wanted, but plunder.
From France, Hasting set sail for Italy, where his ferocity was aided by a cunning which gives us a deeper insight into his character.
A storm arising which threatened the loss of his ships, the brutal Hasting gave orders that the vessels should be lightened by throwing overboard plunder and captives alike.
It was a wiser method of disarming a redoubtable enemy than that of ransoming the land, which Charles had practised with Hasting on a previous occasion.
Hasting left with his message, and Rollo continued his advance to the Seine.
Much hasting over the plain was done by Rudeger's friends, to where one found the lordings, whom men then received well into the margrave's land.
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.
When he saw men hasting to the front he stood by them and cheered them on.
For things that are broken and dissipated suffer this by the separation and dissolution of their parts, every one of them hasting to its own place from that which it had contrary to Nature.
With the beloved hosts of Indra, with the blameless, hasting (Maruts), the sacrificer cries aloud.
Quoth he, 'Sol gave me this for shirt * When hasting down the West to bed So garb and wine and hue of cheek * All three are red on red on red.
The sweet muse of Goldsmith was almost the only genuine beam of radiant light, before the great dawn of a more glorious day which was about to break; and Goldsmith himself was hasting to his end.
He did not repeat now the words that Hasting heard on the bank of the Eure, "We will obey no one!
But the Frenchmen called Hasting a traitor when he brought this answer back to camp, and told his associates not to try to force the pagan entrenchments.
Yet there was not such a long time between the time of Hasting the pirate, and that of Tancred de Hauteville and Robert Guiscard.
There was a council of war in the French camp, and this Hasting (of whom you will hear again by and by) advised that they should confer with Rolf before they risked a battle with him.
Some of the other lords of the army were very suspicious and angry about this proposal, but Hasting had his way, and went out with two attendants who could speak Danish.
No doubt the traditions of Hasting the Northman and his barbarous piracies had hardly died out before the later Normans came, first in scattered groups, and then in legions, to settle in Italy.
This was promising better things of the vikings, and the good bishop visited Hasting readily, and ministered eagerly to his soul's distress.
Say not the years are hasting With rapid footsteps by,-- Say not life's sands are wasting, But call me by and by!
Hasting with the tidings / each minstrel's courser ran, Till found they royal Etzel / within his burgh at Gran.
Etzel the mighty monarch / might then no longer wait, But sprang from off his charger / with many a warrior keen: Unto Kriemhild hasting / full joyously he then was seen.
Presently they began to pass limping men hasting cityward, then fleeing and panic-stricken wretches who looked over their shoulders as if they saw steel flashing at their backs.
She will be out of breath with hasting to fetch my slippers--together with other little domestic offices of that sort, all very profitable for women's souls to perform.
My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Then came hasting over the earth the third fair morning.
The day departed, hasting over the dwellings of earth.
They are hasting on to their end, They who dream they are strong and enduring.
But there was a cause for my hasting away the last, for fear it should not come time enough before a new quarter began.
Ted, hasting to a neighbouring thicket, into the very heart of which he penetrated before halting.
Hasting along the quay without any definite end in view, he found the captain of the port getting the flotilla of gun-boats ready for action.
She then rose up, quite deprived of her senses through joy, and ran crouching away on the road towards Moffat, as if hasting beyond her power to be at it.
But Hasting did not at all keep to his oath, but went on plundering all the same.
Now Hasting had not long before given oaths and hostages to Alfred, and the two boys had been baptised, the King being godfather to one of them and Alderman Aethelred to the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hasting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
