Hastier

Its plan to appeal so quickly is partly designed to pressure Boeing to file a hastier, and thus potentially weaker, appeal than it might otherwise have prepared, said people familiar with the EU's thinking. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)

No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'Generosity' is a slimmer, hastier, more crowd-pleasing book than anything Powers has yet written. ❋ Omnivoracious (2009)

Holland undertook a hastier toilet as he passed through the kitchen garden, rinsing his hands at the well. ❋ Rose Melikan (2008)

A special train was already waiting at the station, along with his personal Douglas DC-3 and three other planes in case he had to make an even hastier exit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The father, with a hastier step, pursues his way to the coach. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I must however own, that the reasons which I had to offer against taking your advice were so obvious, that I thought you would have seen them yourself, and been determined by them, against your own hastier counsel. — ❋ Unknown (2006)

For I am sure Mador is an hot knight when he is enchafed, for the more ye suffer him the hastier will he be to battle. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Presently, after many hasty snatches into the fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the biscuit; then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite offer of it to the little negro. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But the work here had been hastier, the colors layered with less subtlety. ❋ Lippman, Laura, 1959- (2001)

The barbers, made nervous by the presence of the alcalde and under orders to hurry, did hastier work with the second group of Texans. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

Still such yielding spurred us on to hastier speed, when we looked up after delay and saw the self-denying far ahead. ❋ Various (N/A)

That extraordinary, ill-timed laugh made M. de La Tour d'Azyr's recovery hastier and less correctly dignified than it would otherwise have been. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

So it appears in the end that their atheism and loud protestation were in fact the hastier part of their thought, since what emboldened them to deny the poor world's faith was that they were too impatient to understand it. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

And in bustled M. Picot, hastier than need, methought. ❋ Unknown (1903)

And he was the more angry because he felt that he had been hastier with the constable than even his overwrought state of mind warranted. ❋ Holman Day (1900)