Kuroishi is unlighted, and I was tumbling and stumbling along in overhaste when a strong arm cleared the way, and the house-master appeared with a very pretty lantern, hanging close to the ground from a cane held in the hand. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Probably each year will render the overhaste of this course more apparent, and it is likely that some other mode of upholding pure ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Nothing must appear to touch you, nothing to agitate: you must never overhaste yourself, must ever keep yourself composed, retaining still an outward calmness, whatever storms may rage within. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Tell them too, that I have made a blunder through overhaste, through too much good nature: lay all the fault on me. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Will you, dear, without putting yourself to too much inconvenience by overhaste, direct the 'Nazione' people to send the journal, to which we must subscribe for three months, to S.E. le General Comte de Noue, Comandante della piazza di Roma. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)
And to think that she had come so near holding this inimitable creature in her hand, and by overhaste, or clumsiness of statement should lose it! ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)
But Sheridan, undazzled by his brilliant success up to this point, did not mar his work by overhaste. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
"So different from that rascal Woods, who treated some of the men as if they were dogs, and allowed many a poor sheep to go shorn to its pen cut and bleeding from overhaste, with never a word of remonstrance." ❋ Unknown (1888)
Fregellae, the town which assumed the lead in the movement and either through overhaste or faulty information alone took the fatal step, [486] was a Latin colony which had been planted by Rome in the territory of the Volsci in the year 328 ❋ Unknown (1885)
Probably each year will render the overhaste of this course more apparent, and it is likely that some other mode of upholding pure Christianity will have to be adopted, when the venerable men who now sustain and guide the native pastors by their influence shall have been gathered to their rest. ❋ Unknown (1867)
I have already been seized upon (a gentleman would write "button - holed") by several persons, who, in their anxiety to be first in imprinting their own views on the tabula rasa of a stranger's mind, have exercised an unseemly overhaste in giving the conversation an anti-missionary twist. ❋ Unknown (1867)
According to one of these, a young native of Friburg, who had been engaged in the battle, keenly desirous of being the first to carry home tidings of the victory, ran the whole way -- a distance of ten or twelve miles -- and with such overhaste that on his arrival at the market-place he dropped with fatigue, and, barely able to shout that the Swiss were victorious, immediately expired. ❋ James Johonnot (1855)
[FN#52] A necessary precaution, for the headsman who would certainly lose his own head by overhaste. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
"That would be overhaste," cried the duchess; "we are not yet prepared!" ❋ Nathaniel Greene (1843)
Ostermann; "and, therefore, our overhaste would take Biron by surprise." ❋ Nathaniel Greene (1843)
Will you, dear, without putting yourself to too much inconvenience by overhaste, direct the 'Nazione' people to send the journal, to which we must subscribe for three months, to _S.E. le ❋ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)
Being, however, a man of natural ability and taste he improved the text by some happy guesses, while, from overhaste and negligence, he left it still deformed by many palpable errors. ❋ William Shakespeare (1590)
Now the abbess was that night in company with a priest, whom she ofttimes let come to her in a chest; but, hearing the nuns 'outcry and fearing lest, of their overhaste and eagerness, they should push open the door, she hurriedly arose and dressed herself as best she might in the dark. ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)
52 A necessary precaution, for the headsman who would certainly lose his own head by overhaste. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It is necessary to liberate the individual, as well as the entire society of modern times, from the potentiated egotism which spurs man on in overhaste, and in all departments of mental and physical life, to a feverish activity, and then leads to an early senile decay of both body and mind; from that terrible materialism which causes the modern individual in every class of society to find satisfaction in over excited taste and ingenious luxury. ❋ Various (N/A)
