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- noun Plural form of
hastener .
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Examples
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And behind, all down the island-studded Alaskan coast, even to the Horn, were yet ten thousand more, harnessers of wind and steam, hasteners from the ends of the earth.
CHAPTER I 2010
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The only need these Rapture hasteners have for Zion to exist at all is so that it can be consumed in a ball of flame as they, The Chosen, are called to their Maker.
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And behind, all down the island-studded Alaskan coast, even to the Horn, were yet ten thousand more, harnessers of wind and steam, hasteners from the ends of the earth.
A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896
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There he describes 'pride and indigence as the two great hasteners of modern poems.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Herewith, a rogue’s list of shoulder shredders, clavicle crunchers, retina wrenchers, and subdural hematoma hasteners that you don’t want to shoot.
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Herewith, a rogue’s list of shoulder shredders, clavicle crunchers, retina wrenchers, and subdural hematoma hasteners that you don’t want to shoot.
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a closer attention unnecessary, but amidst all his pride and indigence, the two great hasteners of modern poems, employed twelve years upon the
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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