What is "hastening"

Usage examples of "hastening".

That was all, I told myself uneasily, yet I sensed that somewhere, someone must pay for this hastening of the body's work.

The castle was acrawl with hastening servants and nobles socializing with one another.

The art of obtaining the signature of a favorable testament, and sometimes of hastening the moment of its execution, is perfectly understood.

There, amidst the commotion of warriors hastening both into and out of the city, the monks halted.

In a little while he heard the soft footfall of someone hastening towards the tree.

They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm.

This man, who was hastening towards the wood, was already three-quarters of the way on the road from the grotto to the forest.

Anxious as you may suppose I was to behold and comfort my dear sister, I lost no time in hastening to Corsica, but when I arrived at Rogliano I found a house of mourning, the consequences of a scene so horrible that the neighbors remember and speak of it to this day.

The footmen were hastening through the rooms with waiters loaded with ices.

He had therefore set off at a furious rate from the Rue Meslay, and was hastening with rapid strides in the direction of the Faubourg Saint-Honore.

We listened to them hastening through the brush and, when they had gone, Liew exhaled with relief.

Liew led, finding his way unerringly over the rough terrain: three columns of men, hastening through the night to reach the appointed place ahead of sunrise.

The families passed through first, hastening off along the firewall after the king's chariot.

I saw brave men running to meet death: the Gwr Gwir, hastening to carry the battle to the enemy.

Craer announced, pointing at someone only Blackgult saw before the tiny, hastening figure passed into concealing greenery.