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  • Lewes is ordinarily still and leisurely, with no bustle in her steep streets save on market days: an abode of rest and unhastening feet.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • He was amazed at her self-possession, and they walked along with unhastening conventual steps to where the St. John's wort grew amid a tangle of ground ivy in the open spaces of a cypress grove, appearing most vividly and richly golden like sunlight breaking from black clouds in the western sky.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • He could hear her breathing now: long, low, quiet, unhastening -- the miracle of life.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • Ludovic had been coming down that lane to see Theodora, in the same ruminating, unhastening fashion, for fifteen years!

    Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

  • The calmness of the unhastening Earth once more possessed his soul in peace.

    The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • The party at once fixed its eyes on this collection of buildings, and trudged on down the right-of-way with unhastening grimness.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Ludovic had been coming down that lane to see Theodora, in the same ruminating, unhastening fashion, for fifteen years!

    Chronicles of Avonlea 1908

  • The party at once fixed its eyes on this collection of buildings, and trudged on down the right-of-way with unhastening grimness.

    The Blazed Trail 1902

  • He heard the measured, unhastening footsteps, nearer and nearer -- as if his fate were approaching.

    The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895

  • He watched him as, with stately, unhastening step, he walked down the promenade, the Inverness cape and soft felt hat silhouetted in the moonlight.

    The Letter of the Contract Basil King 1893

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