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Definition of Hastes
1. haste [v] - See also: haste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hastes
Literary usage of Hastes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"As when some shaft, With Parthian poison tipped or Cretan gall, A barb of death,
shoots cloud ward from the bow, And hissing through the dark hastes forth ..."
2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"But Cassar seeing lower, hastes answer Flavius, His father ; Yet bears Titus
certain scroll, Aye, in his bosom, of that blind Homerus ; Wherein he studies ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"He knows who loves whom ; and who by poison hastes to an office's reversion.
lie knows who hath sold his land, and now doth beg Shells to transport. ..."
4. The Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus, Robert Potter (1886)
"... From the rich fragrance of her gorgeous bowers, Descending to the main, She
hastes to spread her flying sails, And calls the earth-born zephyr's gales. ..."