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- adverb obsolete
Hastily .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even create some faux-fan sights and post hastely scrawled fan art of your character in stupid poses.
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She opens it and kinda says in a indignant voice 'It is not!' while hastely pulling her pants up.
avanery Diary Entry avanery 2005
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Among all other things whereof hee aduertised the great Turke, one was of a wall that was taken downe for to be new builded at the bulwarke of Auuergne, certifying him that if hee came hastely with his hoste, hee might easilie and at vnawares surprise the towne in such estate as it was at that time.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Moon: and after they had known us, one of them gan say, Whither goe you so hastely?
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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With that ther cam an arrowe hastely, forthe off a myghttë wane;
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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Vse curtesly to ete & not gredely nor hastely/for therin may ye synne.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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With that ther came an arrow hastely, forthe off a myghtty wane [54];
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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It was only when we spotted a jelly-fish in the water that we hastely exited not knowing enough about jellyfish to feel safe.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Among all other things whereof hee aduertised the great Turke, one was of a wall that was taken downe for to be new builded at the bulwarke of Auuergne, certifying him that if hee came hastely with his hoste, hee might easilie and at vnawares surprise the towne in such estate as it was at that time.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And while we strived together whether way we might take, the theeves returned, laiden with their pray, and perceived us a farre off by the light of the Moon: and after they had known us, one of them gan say, Whither goe you so hastely?
The Golden Asse 1566
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