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IN HASTE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a hurried or hasty manner
Example:
sold in haste and at a sacrifice
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Context examples:
Isabella talked of his attentions; she had never been sensible of any; but Isabella had said many things which she hoped had been spoken in haste, and would never be said again; and upon this she was glad to rest altogether for present ease and comfort.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
This specimen, written in haste as it was, had not a fault; and there was a felicity in the flow of the first four words, in the arrangement of My very dear Fanny, which she could have looked at for ever.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Such was the information of the first five minutes; the second unfolded thus much in detail—that they had driven directly to the York Hotel, ate some soup, and bespoke an early dinner, walked down to the pump-room, tasted the water, and laid out some shillings in purses and spars; thence adjourned to eat ice at a pastry-cook's, and hurrying back to the hotel, swallowed their dinner in haste, to prevent being in the dark; and then had a delightful drive back, only the moon was not up, and it rained a little, and Mr. Morland's horse was so tired he could hardly get it along.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
