Hurried Sentence Examples

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  • She hurried to her bathroom.

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  • She grabbed her blanket and hurried down stairs.

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  • As soon as breakfast was over we hurried off to the shore.

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  • She covered her mouth and hurried away.

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  • She hurried to him.

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  • Carmen hurried over to Destiny.

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  • She hurried from between the two warring factions and hugged her.

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  • She inched closer to the point where he'd appeared then hurried by to the edge of the forest.

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  • Multiple pairs of feet hurried down the hall and Connie was the first one through the door.

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  • Testing her ankle in a pair of low heels, she nodded silent approval and hurried down the hall.

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  • Jonathan hurried off to bible class and it was Carmen's turn to help out with the infants, so she took Destiny with her.

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  • So he quickly finished the shoeing, and the groom hurried to lead the horse to the king.

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  • I hurried the preparations for our departure as much as possible, and here we are.

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  • Quinn was flipping the pancakes when Martha hurried down the stairs.

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  • She hurried after him, glancing nervously at the jumble of rocks and trees.

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  • She pulled her arm free and hurried to the house.

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  • Deidre hurried into the shadow world.

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  • Rhyn tested the bonds of his cell again until a mage in a brown robe hurried down the hall to repair the damage.

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  • He replaced the receiver and hurried to his room.

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  • Unable to find her voice, she hurried around him to the table where she'd left her coat.

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  • Several times the telephone rang and he hurried to answer it as if he were expecting a call.

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  • As soon as Howie emerged from the basement we all hurried into the living room and stood around, expectantly.

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  • She hurried to catch up.

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  • Brave men left their homes and hurried toward Boston.

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  • At his affirmative nod, she hurried to her room and changed into jeans and sneakers before he could change his mind.

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  • Suspecting Ving had made a couple of hurried phone calls, she let the call go to voicemail.

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  • Selyn hurried across the room to a pad of paper and pen that Wynn had clearly left behind, if his tight writing on the back cover was any indication.

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  • Me too, thought Dean as the hall phone rang and Cynthia hurried in to answer it.

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  • He gave a wave but no further comment as he hurried to his Jeep and left.

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  • They hurried to the ground floor.

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  • Rhyn growled at the robed man, who hurried away.

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  • A gust of cold, night air swept past her, and she hurried out.

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  • Slipping into her sandals, she hurried down the hall.

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  • Wind and rain slashed at her as she reached the kitchen doorway and she hurried into the house.

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  • She clawed her way into a sweatshirt as she hurried to the door.

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  • He fished his keys out of her pocket and hurried her towards the parking lot.

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  • He didn't look to be in a mood for questions, so she hurried past him to her room, Pierre trailing.

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  • After a hurried shower, he dressed and joined his silent wife in serving the gathering guests.

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  • Kiera offered a smile and hurried past them, heart pounding and face red with embarrassment.

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  • Jackson grabbed a cup of coffee and hurried off to shower.

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  • But the government of Bombay had hurried on a rupture with the Mahratta confederacy at a time when France was on the point of declaring war against England, and when the mother-country found herself unable to subdue her rebellious colonists in America.

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  • The king sat down by the fire, and the woman hurried to get things ready for supper.

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  • I could hear confusion and hurried voices in the background and someone yelled, 'they're here, come on'.

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  • Talon shoved her back into the valley with a snarled threat under his breath, and she hurried out of the trough again, breathing hard by the time she'd clambered twenty feet to the top.

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  • She hurried into the house and shed her boots and coat as fast as she could.

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  • She snatched her bag and hurried home, not reflecting on her behavior until she tossed her coat on the bed.

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  • Han eyed her as she hurried past him toward the library.

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  • When he finished, she nodded and hurried away.

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  • Hannah.s fiancé hurried to the waiting Hummer.

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  • As if reading her intentions, Hannah forced herself out of her shock and hurried to the low-burning hearth.

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  • The third, the youngest, hurried toward the door, translator in hand as he had ordered.

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  • Janet finished her chores and hurried off to her afternoon soaps.

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  • He wanted to listen in when she talked to Skippy in case he got out of line, so hurried downstairs.

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  • She hurried back yelling, "Connor, we have a wedding gift!"

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  • She hurried to admire them when a man came out of the truck.

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  • She hurried to the house and checked the roast.

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  • Lana braced herself and hurried after Mike.

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  • She pushed the door open and hurried to the sink.

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  • His arm loosened, and she hurried to Ully, who grabbed her hand and pulled her from the room.

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  • They hurried to the car.

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  • Ully was dropped to the ground at Toby's command.  He hurried back to the Immortal, worried he'd be hurt.  Ully was unconscious.

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  • He hurried to his rusty Ford and by the time he pulled out on Ocean View Avenue, the man was out of sight and out of mind.

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  • Her heart skipped a beat as she hurried to the door.

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  • She shoved it in the oven, set the timer for one hour and hurried out to do the chores.

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  • Donning a heavy coat, she escaped through the patio doors and hurried out to the barn.

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  • Grabbing her robe, she hurried to the living room.

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  • His father's men hurried to prepare their boats to travel while the barbarians reached for their weapons.

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  • She wrapped her arm and hurried to the door.

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  • Rissa hurried back to the second bedchamber and withdrew an empty bladder from a crate.

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  • Hilden's frown deepened, but he accepted it and hurried away, sensing the urgency.

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  • The wedding was celebrated at Torgau on the 14th of October 1711, in the house of the queen of Poland, and three weeks later the bridegroom was hurried away by his father to Thorn to superintend the provisioning of the Russian troops in Poland.

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  • Woman, in her wasted life, in her hurried death, here stands appealing to the society that degrades her, with a combination of eloquence and poetry, of forms of art at once instantaneous and permanent, and with great metrical energy and variety.

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  • Meanwhile Cromwell had hurried home to deal with the royalists in Scotland.

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  • Charles hurried back from Naples, and narrowly escaped destruction at Fornovo in the passes of the Apennines.

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  • He then hurried back to Andalusia where he joined the sovereigns, who were now besieging Granada, which he entered with the conquering army in January 1492 and built there a convent of his order.

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  • Jumping out of the car, I hurried over to him as came across the sidewalk.

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  • Instead of speaking, she kissed him on the cheek and hurried out the door, where her car had already been pulled in front of the manor.

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  • She lost sight of him and hurried her step.

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  • She hurried to his stall and hugged his neck.

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  • Vara hurried to close the iron door while Hilden rushed to the cell holding Memon.

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  • She hurried from the forest, vowing she would never go back.

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  • Unlocking the door, she hurried through the house, dropping the packages on the table.

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  • Jessi hurried after the Black God, following him into a narrow hallway and what looked like an operations center of some sort.

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  • She hurried into Jessi's arms.

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  • It all seems a very hurried and imperfectly studied philosophical analysis.

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  • Both were written evidently in a less hurried fashion than those in the British Museum, and the one at Lincoln was regarded as the most perfect by the commissioners who were responsible for the appearance of the Statutes of the Realm in 1810.

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  • After the explosion he hurried back to Holyrood and feigned surprise at the receipt of the news half an hour later, ascribing the catastrophe to "the strangest accident that ever chancit, to wit, the fouder (lightning) came out of the luft (sky) and had burnt the king's house."

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  • He acted in the same spirit a few months later, when (about July 1839), understanding that the authorities intended to prevent the despatch of emigrants to New Zealand, he hurried them off on his own responsibility, thus compelling the government to annex the country just in time to anticipate a similar step on the part of France.

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  • The needless bitterness of his attacks upon Plato (in the Comparatio Aristotelis et Platonis), which drew forth a powerful response from Bessarion (q.v.), and the manifestly hurried and inaccurate character of his translations of Plato, Aristotle and other classical authors, combined to ruin his fame as a scholar, and to endanger his position as a teacher of philosophy.

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  • He led the English army back to England after Richard's departure from Palestine; but in Sicily he heard of the king's captivity, and hurried to join him in Germany.

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  • Conrad the Red hurried from Italy and joined the rebels; in Swabia, in Bavaria, in Franconia and even in Saxony, the native land of the king, many sided with them.

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  • Frederick, who had hurried back from Italy, was besieged in August in the Vienna Neustadt, and was forced to deliver Ladislaus to Count Ulrich, whose influence had meanwhile eclipsed that of Eiczing.

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  • Unfortunately famine compelled the garrison of Kassala to capitulate on the 3oth of July of that year, and Osman Digna hurried there from Tamai to raise a force with which to meet the Abyssinian general, Ras Alula, who was preparing for its relief.

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  • He hurried back to Rome upon the accession of Pius V., who made him apostolic vicar of his order, and, later (1570), cardinal.

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  • Alfred at once hurried westwards and raised the siege of Exeter; the fate of the other place is not recorded.

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  • But Douglas and Percy left Cocklaw before Albany came up, and hurried to join hands with the Welsh rebel, Glendower.

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  • In place of remaining in his position, James burned his camp and hurried his men down hill to the plateau of Branxton ridge.

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  • A hurried campaign under the king's personal command was ineffectual.

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  • He was immediately arrested and hurried to Nicaea in Bithynia.

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  • He was hurried away to the desolate town of Cucusus (Cocysus), among the ridges of Mount Taurus, with a secret hope, perhaps, that he might be a victim to the Isaurians on the march, or to the more implacable fury of the monks.

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  • In the spring of 1556 he visited Brussels to see his wife; on his way back, between Brussels and Antwerp, he and Sir Peter Carew were treacherously seized (May 15) by order of Philip of Spain, hurried over to England, and imprisoned in the Tower.

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  • His manuscripts were his main care; and doubtful of the safety of his last despatch to Bamberg, and disturbed by the French soldiers in his lodgings, he hurried off, with the last pages of the Phanomenologie, to take refuge in the pro-rector's house.

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  • Sir Hugh Gough, the commander-in-chief, together with the governor-general, hurried up to the frontier.

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  • He hurried back to Italy, and repressed the movement with his usual ferocity, but died in 1197.

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  • The king, after a somewhat farcical occupation of Rome, which had been evacuated by the French, hurried back to Naples as soon as the French attacked his troops, and although the lazzaroni (the lowest class of the people) were devoted to the dynasty and ready to defend it, he fled with the court to Palermo in a panic on board Nelson's ships.

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  • Brisson, and Gay-Lussac hurried back to Paris in the hope, which was gratified, that he would be elected to the seat thus vacated in the Academy.

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  • In March the Egyptians were severely defeated by the revolted Arabs of the Hauran; and the Porte, though diplomatic pressure kept it quiet, hurried on preparations for war.

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  • On the 3 rd of October Beirut fell; and Ibrahim, cut off from his communications by sea, and surrounded by a hostile population, began a hurried retreat southward.

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  • On the morning of January 15, five days only after the adoption of Piso, Otho attended as usual to pay his respects to the emperor, and then hastily excusing himself on the score of private business hurried from the Palatine to meet his accomplices.

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  • Then they took their guns, their axes, anything they could find, and hurried out.

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  • Here! exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the weight they were carrying were too much for them.

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  • The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.

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  • The Emperor passed on to the drawing room, the crowd made a rush for the doors, and several persons with excited faces hurried there and back again.

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  • He cast down his eyes and hurried out as if it were none of his business, careful as he went not to inflict any accidental injury on the young lady.

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  • The Emperor! a sudden cry resounded through the halls and the whole throng hurried to the entrance.

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  • Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn.

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  • Princess Mary murmured, pacing the garden with hurried steps and pressing her hands to her bosom which heaved with convulsive sobs.

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  • He hurried to find the family of that civil servant in order to restore the daughter to her mother and go to save someone else.

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  • At her nod he continued his hurried instructions.

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  • Jessi hurried into the apartment building.

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  • Jessi hurried inside, heart pounding, not at ease until all four locks of her apartment door were securely in place.

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  • Her cousin hurried back, her face falling when she realized Jonny was gone.

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  • Ashley hurried away, and Jessi hugged herself.

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  • Jessi hurried after him, not wanting to be alone in the scary place.

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  • She hurried the last few steps to him and flung her arms around him.

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  • Agrippa, who had hurried from Alexandria, entered Jerusalem with the governor's emissary.

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  • David's hurried flight, attended only by his bodyguard, indicates that his position was not a very strong one, and it is difficult to connect this with the fact that he had already waged the wars mentioned in 2 Sam.

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  • Two days later Napoleon, by means of unworthy artifices, hurried the Austrian plenipotentiaries into signing the treaty of peace at Schonbrunn.

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  • It is indeed true that to thousands the hope of acquiring spiritual merit must have been a great motive; it is also true, as the records of crusading sermons show, that there was a strong element of "revivalism" in the Crusades, and that thousands were hurried into taking the cross by a gust of that uncontrollable enthusiasm which is excited by revivalist meetings to-day.

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  • Wesley hurried to London to check this irregularity, but his mother urged him to hear Maxwell for himself, and he soon saw that such assistance was of the highest value.

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  • In June 1593, with an army of 30,000 men, he laid siege to Sissek; the Austrian and Hungarian levies hurried to its relief; and on the 22nd the Turks were routed with immense slaughter on the banks of the Kulpa, Hassan himself, with many other beys and two of the imperial princes, being among the slain.

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  • Russia, meanwhile, had seized the occasion to send to Constantinople an ultimatum demanding satisfaction for her own particular grievances; the Porte resented the intrusion of new demands before the others had been dealt with, and hurried on preparations for war.

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  • At length becoming impatient he advanced a portion of his army towards Blucher, who fell back to draw him into a trap. Then the news reached him that Schwarzenberg was pressing down the valley of the Elbe, and, leaving Macdonald to observe Blucher, he hurried back to Bautzen to dispose his troops to cross the Bohemian mountains in the general direction of KOnigstein, a blow which must have had decisive results.

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  • But the news from Dresden was so alarming that at the last moment he changed his mind, and sending Vandamme alone over the mountains, he hurried with his whole army to the threatened point.

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  • These disasters compelled the retreat of the whole Silesian army, and Napoleon, leaving Mortier and Marmont to deal with them, hurried back to Troyes with his main body to strike the flank of Schwarzenberg's army, which had meanwhile begun its leisurely advance, and again at Mormant on the 17th of February, Montereau the 38th and Mery the he inflicted such heavy punishment upon his adversaries that they fell back precipitately to Bar-sur-Aube.

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  • Captain Bettesworth who commanded the brig hurried home, and the information he brought was at once acted on by Lord Barham, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who took measures to station a force to intercept Villeneuve outside Ferrol.

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  • He was much tempted by the proposal, and hurried down to Knowsley to consult his father, who called out when he entered the room, " Hallo, Stanley !

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  • This made war inevitable; though Batthyany hurried to Vienna to try and arrange a settlement.

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  • The result was a difficulty as to burial, which was compromised by hurried interment at the abbey of Scellieres in Champagne, anticipating the interdict of the bishop of the diocese by an hour or two.

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  • The resistance offered by the Turks had been most determined, and these could reckon upon receiving welcome reinforcements within a few hours; for as soon as the situation declared itself Liman von Sanders had hurried off one of the two divisions (the 7th) at Bulair by water with orders to repair to Helles.

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  • At nightfall the very few guns still to go were hurried off to the jetties.

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  • Arminius hurried home, but only to find all his relatives slain.

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  • Warned by a hurried sign by Hamud that his life was in danger, Mahommed at once attacked Bandar, stabbed him and took possession of the citadel; a general massacre of all members of the house of Ibn Rashid followed, and next day Mahommed appeared with his cousin Hamud in the market-place of Hail, and announced his assumption of the amirship. A strong and capable ruler, he soon established his authority over all northern and western Nejd, and in 1872 the opportunity arrived for his intervention in the east.

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  • Meteoric observation has depended upon rough and hurried eye estimates in past years, but the importance of attaining greater accuracy by means of photography has been recognized.

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  • Then, repenting this ill-judged step, he hurried in person to the French camp at Pietra Santa and humbled himself before the king.

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  • Undeterred by the news of heavy attacks on his rear from Tirol and from Bohemia, Napoleon hurried all available troops to the bridges, and by daybreak on the 21st, 40,000 men were collected on the Marchfeld, the broad open plain of the left bank, which was also to be the scene of the battle of Wagram.

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  • A subsidy treaty with the sea powers (April 1 9, 1 794) filled his coffers; but the insurrection in Poland that followed the partition of 1793, and the threat of the isolated intervention of Russia, hurried him into the separate treaty of Basel with the French Republic (April 5, 1795), which was regarded by the great monarchies as a betrayal, and left Prussia morally isolated in Europe on the eve of the titanic struggle between the monarchical principle and the new political creed of the Revolution.

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  • Ancaeus set down the cup, leaving the wine untasted, hurried out, and was killed by the boar.

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  • Blake, informed by the sound of the cannon, which was audible on the Thames, that an action was in progress, hurried to sea and joined Monk in the pursuit of the Dutch on the 3rd of June.

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  • It was in 1536, when Calvin was on a hurried and final visit to France, that in Paris he first met Servetus, and as he himself says, proposed to set him right on theological points.'

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  • Meanwhile Major Thruston - a man justly loved by his soldiers, in whom he had complete confidence - hurried to the garrison at Luba's, near the Ripon Falls, relying on his personal influence to control the men, and risking his life in the heroic attempt.

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  • Having been hurried with unseemly haste through all the intermediate orders, he received consecration two days after his election, which was unacceptable to the people.

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  • It was nearing noon when the emperor reached the front with the Young Guard, whom he had personally hurried forward.

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  • The census figures relate to the calendar year preceding 1st June 1900, and hurried and careless answers about the preceding year's crop are almost sure to have been given by many farmers in the midst of the summer's work.

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  • The Regency Bill had been hurried on in consequence of the attempt of a crazy pot-boy, Edward Oxford, to take the queen's life.

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  • Before the work of the congress was completed Napoleon was again at Paris, and the closing stages were hurried and illconsidered.

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  • The percentage of failure is greatest when fresh-caught adults are hurried to Europe or America.

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  • All troops on both sides hurried to the unexpected battlefield, and after a great three days' battle, the Army of the Potomac emerged at last with a decisive victory.

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  • Grant was now given supreme command in the west, and the Army of the Tennessee (now under Sherman) and two corps from Virginia under Hooker were hurried by rail to Tennessee.

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  • The essence of Waagen's law is orthogenesis, or evolution in a definite direction, and, if there does exist an internal hereditary principle controlling such orthogenetic evolution, there does not appear to be any essential contradiction between its gradual operation in the " mutations of Waagen " and its occasional hurried operation in the " mutations of de Vries," which are by their definition discontinuous or saltatory (Osborn, 1907).

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  • Animated with this new conception Schelling made his hurried rush to Naturphilosophie, and with the aid of Kant and of fragmentary knowledge of contemporary scientific movements, threw off in quick succession the Ideen, the Weltseele, and the Erster Entwurf.

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  • Two thousand men, mainly the Maryland line, were hurried down from Washington's camp under Johann de Kalb; Virginia and North Carolina put new men into the field, and the entire force was placed under command of General Gates.

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  • But on the outbreak of the war between Piedmont and Austria in 1848 he hurried back to Italy, and although at first his services were rejected both by the Piedmontese government and the Lombard provisional government, he was afterwards given the command of a Lombard brigade.

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  • The marriage, we are told, was arranged by the parents of the pair, and was a somewhat hurried act.

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  • But his naval support, ill prepared, was hurried into action by him at Plattsburg on the 11th of September, and defeated.

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  • Although he really directed the policy of the various ministries, he evidently thought that the time was not ripe for asserting openly his own claims to direct the policy of the Republic, and seemed inclined to observe a neutral attitude as far as possible; but events hurried him on, and early in 1881 he placed himself at the head of a movement for restoring scrutin de lisle, or the system by which deputies are returned by the entire department which they represent, so that each elector votes for several representatives at once, in place of scrutin d'arrondissement, the system of small constituencies, giving one member to each district and one vote to each elector.

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  • Alex helped the man get the luggage into the trunk and then hurried to assist Carmen into the car before the man could touch her.

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  • Now play time with my frightened friend will be hurried.

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  • She hurried into the back room.

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  • She opened the stairwell door and hurried down the stairs two floors then darted into a hallway to the elevator.

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  • She hugged herself and hurried towards the door to the pub.

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  • The plump woman nodded and hurried away, like everyone save her father did around her.

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  • He released her, and she hurried away from him into the center of the hall.

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  • The dress shifted around her as she hurried to the wardrobe.

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  • She hurried to the one waiting for her and paused.

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  • Cynthia asked as they hurried back to their Jeep.

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  • There was a hurried "I love you," not an easy thing for her to say, then a dial tone.

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  • He hurried the Jeep as fast as he dared on the gravel-slippery road where even a crawl seemed excessive.

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  • He turned to Lydia Larkin as one of the EMT personnel hurried over.

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  • Dean slammed the door behind him and hurried after her into the darkened room.

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  • They were too busy arguing to pay attention but Dean shielded Martha and hurried the group back to the rear quarters.

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  • Deidre paid the driver and hurried inside, her mind reeling and her body buzzing with the weird energy of the killer who'd marked her.

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  • A man in a robe hurried down the hall as the beast battered itself against the weakening cell.

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  • His eyes flashed, and she hurried to stand before him with her neck craned back to meet his gaze, toe-to-toe with the beast.

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  • She hurried to Rhyn and stood looking up at him.

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  • A tap at the door made Lankha pause, and she hurried to answer it to keep the healer from being distracted.

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  • She hurried to Toby and lifted the sleeping angel carefully before she and Lankha left.

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  • The image of baby Rhyn and Kris.s words distracted her as she hurried through the hall back to the stairs.

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  • She hurried to change the subject.

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  • His sister hurried away.

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  • She stood spread-eagle until it shrank to fit her, shuddered at the creepy sensation of life-like silk caressing her skin, and hurried out of the bathroom.

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  • His woman hurried forward to the hall but stopped in front of him, her intelligent eyes flashing with anger.

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  • She hurried from the room.

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  • She turned and hurried up the stairs as Donnie stood by the table, torn between curiosity and following his mother.

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  • Dean hurried to return his skis while the others took the gondola back to the parking lot.

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  • The boy was too far away for Dean to hail but Dean hurried his pace in hopes of stopping him and asking if he'd seen Cynthia.

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  • She offered her sympathies but seemed more concerned with finding sister Claire and hurried outside to see if any of the other now returning guests had seen her.

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  • Effie just shook her head, turned without a word and hurried from the room.

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  • Dean couldn't hear what she said, but the boy gave her a hug and gestured to Martha who had hurried ahead to where Dean remained standing on the porch.

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  • During the hurried explanations of her mother's condition, her trip home and hushed comments on the recent happenings, it was moments before Dean noticed Janet O'Brien sitting in the far corner.

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  • Dean wished he'd taken time to dress more warmly as he hurried down the penstock path toward where Shipton's severed line had been tethered.

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  • As he hurried down the narrow plank catwalk atop the penstock, he caught sight of a woman stumbling toward him.

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  • She turned and hurried into the house.

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  • Jackson heard Elisabeth's car pull up and hurried out to meet her.

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  • Victor gathered up Cassandra and hurried to the door cursing, then yelled back, "This is not over!"

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  • He then hurried to Elisabeth who was already sitting up straight.

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  • Muffled steps hurried down the hall toward her door and Katie pounded on the door.

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  • She hurried to her greencar, trailed by the self-propelled suitcase.

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  • Hands over her ears, she took a deep breath and hurried up them, all but flinging herself into the arms of an awaiting rebel soldier.

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  • Toby didn't answer, unwilling to admit just how much Ully's words stung.  He led them deeper into the jungle.  The branches hurried to create a path for him, and he smiled at them.  According to his angel memories, the trees were more than trees in Death's underworld.  They were alive.

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  • He hefted Kiki once again.  Hannah sniffled and crawled to her feet.  Rhyn hurried towards the Sanctuary, concerned for Kiki but even more anxious about making sure Katie was alive and well.

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  • There was no further conversation after they parked and hurried to the terminal.

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  • She hurried to her feet and continued, heart racing as she ran through the city towards her home.

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  • He hurried to the unconscious man's side.

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  • She paled and hurried to the lever.

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  • The greater part of the German clergy again proved their loyalty to Frederick, who hurried to Germany only to see the oDposition vanish before him.

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  • Charles was aided by soldiers hurried from Italy and the Netherlands, but he did not gain any substantial successes until after October 1546, when his ally Maurice invaded electoral Saxony and forced John Frederick to march northwards to its defence.

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  • Elba (March 5), it remained a mere sketch, the hasty output of a few hurried sessions, of which the elaboration was reserved for the future.

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  • The Carlsbad Decrees, hurried through the diet under Austrian pressure, excited considerable opposition among the lesser sovereigns, who resented the claim of the diet to interfere in the internal concerns of their states, and whose protests at Frankfort had been expunged from the records.

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  • The pneumonia is usually lobular, the onset marked by rigors, with difficult and hurried breathing, cough and expectoration.

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  • The breathing becomes very hurried - forty to sixty respirations in the minute - and the face dusky.

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  • A hurried outline of each of these vital branches of our civilization will at once reveal the falseness of the usual periodizing.

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  • The ninth legion which had hurried from Lincoln was cut to pieces, and the insurgents prepared to march on London.

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  • From Detroit he hurried to the Niagara frontier, but on the 13th of October in the same year was killed at the battle of Queenston Heights.

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  • A number of officers, as well as of men in civil life, were mixed up in the plot, while the methods employed were the lowest forms of anonymous slander; but at the first breath of exposure every one concerned hurried to cover up his part in it, leaving Conway to shoulder both the responsibility and the disgrace.

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  • In public he was of magnificent bearing, possessing the true oratorical temperament, the nervous exaltation that makes the orator feel and appear a superior being, transfusing his thought, passion and will into the mind and heart of the listener; but his imagination frequently ran away with his understanding, while his imperious temper and ardent combativeness hurried him and his party into disadvantageous positions.

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  • Hurried, unconnected sentences, rather than sustained argument, are its most characteristic features.

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  • Emboldened by success, a large band of rioters marched into the town of Carmarthen on the 10th of June and attacked the workhouse, but on this occasion they were dispersed by a troop of cavalry which had hurried from Cardiff.

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  • The Afghans fled through the town; and Ashraf, murdering the poor old shah Uosain on his way, hurried with the wreck of his army towards Shiraz.

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  • When on the 7th of November 1793 Gobel, bishop of Paris, was intimidated into resigning his episcopal office at the bar of the Convention, Gregoire, who was temporarily absent from the sitting, hearing what had happened, hurried to the hall, and in the face of a howling mob of deputies refused to abjure either his religion or his office.

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  • The militia was called out and regular troops were hurried to Shoshone county from Fort Sherman, Idaho and Fort Missoula, Montana.

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  • Germanicus hurried back to the camp, which was now in open insurrection.

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  • Open war was averted only by Beaufort's prudence, and Bedford's hurried return.

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  • Alviano, who was visiting the king when the Swiss appeared before Melegnano, hurried off to bring thither his own army.

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  • His widow Alida, however, an ambitious woman of strong character, as soon as her husband was dead, hurried on a marriage between Ada and Count Louis of Loon; and attempted with the nobles of Holland, who now for the first time make their appearance as a power in the country, to oppose the claim which William had made to the countship as heir in the male line.

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  • With this object Ito hurried back to Japan.

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  • Livingstone was no hurried traveller; he did his journeying leisurely, carefully observing and recording all that was worthy of note, with rare geographical instinct and the eye of a trained scientific observer, studying the ways of the people, eating their food, living in their huts, and sympathizing with their joys and sorrows.

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  • The enemy's artillery was three hundred yards away, yet the British pressed on in spite of their losses, and as some of the Light Division troops reached the "Great Battery" the Russians hurried their guns away to safety.

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  • He marched with his army against the French and entered Rome (29th of November), but on the defeat of some of his columns he hurried back to Naples, and on the approach of the French, fled on board Nelson's ship the "Vanguard" to Sicily, leaving his capital in a state of anarchy.

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  • On his release he hurried to take part in the defence of Saumur against the Vendean royalists, and distinguished himself at the combat of Saumur (June 10, 1793) by gallantly rescuing the representative Bourbotte from the hands of the insurgents.

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  • Augustine's insistence on original sin, a doctrine never quite accepted in his sense in the East, hurried on the change.

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  • He " did not allow himself to be hurried on by an inconsiderate zeal to condemn fasting, the life of celibacy, monachism, considered purely in themselves..

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  • Napoleon expressed his regret, stating that the execution had been carried out against his wishes, having been hurried on by the zeal of his generals.

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  • He hurried to Basel, transacted some business, and returned to Geneva in August 1536.

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  • It was Demosthenes who went to Byzantium, brought the estranged city back to the Athenian alliance, and snatched it from the hands of Philip. It was Demosthenes who, when Philip had already seized Elatea, hurried to Thebes, who by his passionate appeal gained one last chance, the only possible chance, for Greek freedom, who broke down the barrier of an inveterate jealousy, who brought Thebans to fight beside Athenians, and who thus won at the eleventh hour a victory for the spirit of loyal union which took away at least one bitterness from the unspeakable calamity of Chaeronea.

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  • A force of Italians and Spaniards landing at Smerwick in Kerry, Grey hurried thither, and the foreigners, who had no commission, surrendered at discretion, and were put to the sword.

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  • Hortense hurried to the spot and took steps which enabled her to save her second son from the Austrian prisons.

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  • In 1911, when the revolution broke out prematurely at Wuchang, Dr. Sun was in England; but he hurried back to China and arrived at Shanghai on Christmas Eve, in time to be acclaimed as the originator of the Republican programme and elected Provisional President by the delegates to the National Convention assembled at Nanking.

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  • When Congress met in Washington the final crisis was hurried on.

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  • When Cavour heard the news he hurried to the king's headquarters at Monzambano, and in violent, almost disrespectful language implored him to continue the campaign at all hazards, relying on his own army and the revolutionary movement in the rest of Italy.

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  • According to the hurried phone call Quinn has spent the last three months at this water side retreat writing a paper on some obscure theoretical principal.

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  • She looked at our meager supply of coins and hurried back to the checkout counter.

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  • The rain fell almost horizontally, and she hurried to follow Talon as he found a path among the black waves, many of which were taller than buildings.

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  • She hurried to follow Czerno, silently praying Jake ratted her out to Damian.

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  • Together they had hurried to Janet O'Brien's trailer in hopes of catching Donnie before he wandered unexpectedly into the macabre turmoil his mother had caused in her violent exit from life.

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  • Brady didn't so much as flinch, and she hurried after him.

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  • Katie followed her instincts through the dreamscape until she climbed the last rocks and saw Rhyn curled in a ball just on the other side of a small ridge on the Sanctuary.  Her heart leapt, and she hurried to him.  In her last dream, he'd been there one moment then disappeared, just when she reached out for him.  She couldn't help wondering if these dreams were more than dreams.  This wouldn't be the first time she lived out reality in a dream.

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  • Marking the wall with more blood, she kept to the shadows and hurried down the road.

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  • The root of the goal came in a needlessly hurried clearance by Stuart McCluskey which immediately had Falkirk driving on top of our defense.

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  • On the way Double-banded coursers hurried away anxiously from our approach only to stop again suddenly to look back at us.

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  • He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story.

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  • September 3 rd 1919 There was a rather hurried meeting called at Cavendish to discuss the proposed war memorial.

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  • We never hurried people out of the Magic Box like that, even if it was past closing time.

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  • In a very hurried day your page was a ray of sunshine.

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  • My recording session were always too hurried for me.

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  • Even yet she used to send him little hurried smuggled notes, and pop them into the post in private.

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  • The worst we've seen so far by a long way - many of the articles feel hurried.

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  • Those with living livestock hurried about tending the pathetic remnants of their herds with cloth over their noses to keep out the smell.

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  • A military conspiracy was formed, and on the night of the 10th of August the prince was seized in the palace at Sofia, and compelled to sign his abdication; he was then hurried to the Danube at Rakhovo, transported on his yacht to Reni, and handed over to Russian authorities, by whom he was allowed to proceed to Lemberg.

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  • Accordingly, even in a hurried survey of the history of theism, we must try to question the systems we are reviewing upon their attitude towards human freedom and immortality, as well as upon their doctrine of God.

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  • The order was skilfully obeyed, and the prince was hurried before a court-martial hastily summoned at that castle.

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  • Handing over the command to Soult, he hurried back to Paris to trample on the seeds of sedition and to overwhelm Austria by the blows which he showered upon her in the valley of the Danube.

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  • Already, on the 25th of May, had been concluded the holy league between the pope, Venice and Spain for a new crusade against the infidel, in spite of the efforts of France to prevent the adhesion of the republic. Preparations were hurried on and at the end of September the great allied fleet, under Don John of Austria, sailed into the archipelago.

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  • The Turks began a hurried embarcation and allowed the Christians to join forces at Notabile; then, hearing less alarming particulars of the relieving force, Mustapha relanded his reluctant troops, faced his enemies in the open, and was driven in confusion to his ships on the 8th of September.

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  • Oh the death of Aurelius, whom he had accompanied in the war against the Quadi and Marcomanni, he hastily concluded peace and hurried back to Rome (180).

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  • To relieve their inglorious predicament the ministry hurried the Liberal diplomatist, Ferdinand de Lesseps, to Rome to prevent further conflict.

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  • A battalion was hurried up in motor lorries, and marched up to Pasubio by the Passo di Xamo.

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  • The men hurried down and soon saw that the flock was a large one.

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  • He hurried back to the pathway, and then ran to his mother.

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  • You can't make me believe that, said the robber; and he hurried away to rob one of the rich merchants.

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  • Anna Mikhaylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick man's hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss.

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  • He only heard Dolokhov's hurried steps, and his figure came in view through the smoke.

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  • He heard hurried footsteps beyond the door, both halves of it were opened rapidly; all was silent and then from the study the sound was heard of other steps, firm and resolute--they were those of Napoleon.

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  • As soon as Prince Andrew opened his eyes, the doctor bent over, kissed him silently on the lips, and hurried away.

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  • Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.

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  • She was roused from her reverie by the talk of the maids in the next room (which was theirs) and by the sound of their hurried footsteps going to the back porch.

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  • But as soon as Pierre turned toward him he wrapped his dressing gown around him with a shamefaced and angry look and hurried away.

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  • At the moment when Vereshchagin fell and the crowd closed in with savage yells and swayed about him, Rostopchin suddenly turned pale and, instead of going to the back entrance where his carriage awaited him, went with hurried steps and bent head, not knowing where and why, along the passage leading to the rooms on the ground floor.

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  • Sugar Beach Resort is reminiscent of a bygone era - a less hurried time.

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  • Vulture hurried in quickly, shutting the door with a snap.

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  • In fact, it may cut down on your hurried morning ritual since the makeup is all contained in one package and used with corresponding brushes.

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  • Does the clerk give you time to adequately browse, or are you hurried into a dressing room?

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  • The procrastination often leads to a hurried and run-of-the-mill gift.

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  • Even one simple request can seem like an impossible feat, so the response becomes a hurried 'no!', and the person's anxiety level goes up.

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  • It is important, however unusual the proposal is, to ensure that your partner has time to consider the proposal and isn't embarrassed or hurried into a decision.

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  • Frightened, the villagers hurried back to their homes and locked the doors.

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  • These sites are great for skimming whether an episode should be hurried home and watched or saved for the next day when you have more time.

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  • Writing and editing are tasks not to be hurried.

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  • Sarah hurried to kitchen and returned with a bowl.

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  • In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls' educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Empress.

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  • We had hurried through the dish-washing after luncheon, in order that we might have as long an afternoon as possible for the story.

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  • You have hurried here.

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