Only a pharaoh may act thus, or a traitor, or--a frivolous stripling, who with the same heedlessness will do hasty deeds or belch forth words of blasphemy.
But since in such affairs over-hasty action may only bring injury, I give them at first a small thing: After six days' labor the seventh for rest.
He is hasty in anger, but he knows how to be grateful.
Walter Montagu, after his hasty flight from England, had been received with rather unexpected kindness by Richelieu.
That gentleman arriving, in obedience to a hasty summons, did indeed at first assert with his usual hauteur that neither he nor any of the household would depart without the commands of their own sovereign.
And so it is in many another field; the false generalizations and hasty inductions serve a temporary purpose.
Marriage is a contract for life and will never bear a hasty conclusion.
Wounded love may be the result of hasty and indiscreet conduct of young people; or the outgrowth of lust, or the result of domestic infidelity and discord.
One great cause of matrimonial infelicity is the hasty marriages of persons who have no adequate knowledge of each other's characters.
Many times serious diseases are brought on by parents being too hasty in checking this disorder of the bowels.
It was known then that the army, after several hasty marches, finding itself at Ghent, the Elector of Bavaria had insisted that it ought at least to remain there.
If Graumaun had killed Siders in a hasty quarrel, he might possibly, in his excitement, have left his revolver.
I can understand the open drawers and cupboard; that is explained by the thief's hasty search for booty.
The little old lady gave her eyes a last hasty dab with a dainty handkerchief and raised her head again, fighting for self-control.
I do not allude to this as any proof of literary expertness: on the contrary, I offer it as some apology for the inaccuracies incidental to so hasty a performance.
It were to be wished that General Lake had shown similar generosity to Mr. Cornelius Grogan, whose hasty and unmerited execution by martial law savoured of deliberate murder as strongly as the death of most who were slaughtered by the rebels.
Readers of that interesting but misleading work must bear in mind that it was a very hasty production.
A hasty and harmless volley was fired, while the bear glared round as if undecided upon which of the group to wreak his vengeance.
If so, it was a victory followed the next evening by the hasty retreat of the victors, who were hotly pursued for thirty miles by Marion and Lee.
There had been no hasty movement, no violent act to give them warning; only the little blade had pushed itself nearer and nearer to the electric light cord lying there .
Before this final, hasty desertion, however, I had dragged myself, worn out with a sleepless night, to the lengthy services in the Cathedral each morning.
He beat a hasty retreat to his wife in the office, where their merriment burst out.
Some idea of Ximenez' genius may be gathered from a hasty review of his Regency, which covered the last two years of his life.
A hasty sketch of our tour may help later travelers.
The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist.
There had been a hasty leave-taking between Charley and Rosalie, but it was in the presence of others, and they had never spoken a word privately together since the day she had said to him that where he went she would go, in life or out of it.
Their laborious device was brought to naught should any eye espy them in their hasty flight to the State line.
In her hasty enterprise she had not counted on crossing it, but Meddlesome rarely turned back.
He followed the hasty creaking shoes but stood by nimbly by the threshold, saluting forms, a bulky with a slender.
A hasty step over the stone porch and in the corridor.
John Wyse Nolan fell back with Mr Power, while Martin Cunningham took the elbow of a dapper little man in a shower of hail suit, who walked uncertainly, with hasty steps past Micky Anderson's watches.
They examine him curiously from under their pencilled brows and smile to his hasty bow.
Voluble, dutiful, he led the way to all the provincial papers, a bowing dark figure following his hasty heels.
His hasty hand went quick into a pocket, took out, read unfolded Agendath Netaim.
Barbenoire, a Breton whole-heartedly devoted to his mistress, did not press the point, but ordering a hastymeal to be prepared, remained with the young squire.
Then, leaving two men to keep a sharp look-out, the remainder of the worn and famished warriors descended into a lower room to partake of a hasty yet plentiful meal.
No fires were allowed to be lighted for fear of giving warning of their approach, and after a hasty breakfast the company started on the last portion of the journey.
At a score paces from the house stood a solitary gnarled trunk of a dead tree, and towards this the bowman cast a hasty yet anxious glance.
But your hasty son, That came so speedy with a fatal message, Was not so forward now; they both do live, And both are married.
A hasty glance round the encampment showed that their captives were not within its circle.
Not a few of the younger men, bidding a hasty adieu to their friends, joined the ranks of their countrymen, and, seizing one of the captured muskets, prepared to take a part in the strife which had been so well begun.
This hastysketch he enlarged, at the request of Cowper.
Commission'd to convene with hasty call The gowned tribes, how graceful wouldst thou stand!
Where now the throng That press'd the beach, and, hasty to depart, Look'd to the sea for safety?
Not a hasty stroke, Like that which sends him to the dusty grave; But unrepealable enduring death.
This trivial show of temper, which, indeed, had been provoked by my own hasty speech, turned my impatience into fury.
I was obliged to manufacture an excuse for such a hasty departure, and so fell back on an old engagement which I had truly overlooked, and which really called me away.
Rockingham asked, glaring at her so viciously that I interposed with a hasty entreaty that all should hurry to the ship.
I have next to notice your second objection--that retaining the name of the FIRST describer in perpetuum along with that of the species, is a premium on hasty and careless work.
It seems to have been placed thus early in the Essay to prevent the hasty rejection of the whole theory by a reader to whom the idea of natural selection acting on instincts might seem impossible.
There was enough in the speaker's voice to make his listener turn on him like a panther, and Father Fragrance stepped back with a hasty apology.
She had taken a hasty resolve to have one more interview with Jackson, and then to say good-bye forever.
Finally the head clerk reappeared, but he came back with hasty steps and a face in which green predominated over its habitually yellow tinge.
Amandine resumed her work, after having exchanged a hasty glance with her brother; a tear glistened in her eye.
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