Hastily Sentence Examples

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  • Carmen hastily began dressing.

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  • She scrambled from underneath the wagon and hastily threw her blankets under the seat.

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  • Standing in the kitchen, she snatched a pen from her purse and hastily scribbled a note.

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  • They hastily turned round to him asking if he had any news.

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  • The hussars galloped hastily back with their prisoners.

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  • The French guns were hastily reloaded.

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  • The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away.

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  • She wiped her eyes hastily.

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  • Nicholas went hastily to the front porch, saying he felt too hot.

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  • He hastily reached into his cargo pocket and retrieved the keypad.

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  • Evidently it has to be so, said he to himself, and hastily undressing he got into bed, happy and agitated but free from hesitation or indecision.

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  • On his appearance the Scots hastily changed front and took post on Branxton Hill, facing north.

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  • He made as if he did not notice that look and moved hastily away.

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  • He hastily reached for the light switch.

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  • A meeting of Uitlander leaders was hastily summoned on the 25th of December.

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  • He was one of those who held that nothing should be done hastily, and that few crimes were worse than the waste of time."

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  • I hastily swallowed my anger.

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  • You behaved as becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won't go into that.

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  • The army of Pflug hastily dispersed, and the estates still assembled at Prague endeavoured to propitiate Ferdinand.

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  • Hastily gathering an army he defeated the earls of Pembroke and Wiltshire at Mortimer's Cross on the 2nd of February 1461, and then marched on London.

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  • At last, resorting to the south again as a refuge from ill-health, and recognizing soon that the relief it could give him was almost spent, he resolved that it should not be for him, in the words of Maurice Barres, a "tombe fleurie," and he returned, hastily, weak and sinking, to his home at Deauville, that he might at least die within sight of Channel waters and under Channel skies.

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  • Harold had to turn hastily southward to meet them.

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  • Some months afterward I received a bill for many thousands of pounds, which I hastily passed on to divisional headquarters.

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  • They are crammed with poor families, while their gardens have vanished under hastily built hovels.

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  • Sure, I had to bolster some outside walls with hastily improvised buttresses, but bless it all, somehow she made it through.

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  • Canoes of bent bark, for the inland waters, are hastily prepared at need; but the inlets and straits of the north-eastern sea-coast are navigated by larger canoes and rafts of a better construction.

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  • In vain did the pope explain his reasons and yield certain points; the fathers would listen to nothing, and, relying on the decrees of the council of Constance, which amid the troubles of the schism had proclaimed the superiority, in certain cases, of the council over the pope, they insisted upon their right of remaining assembled, hastily beat up the laggards, held sessions, promulgated decrees, interfered in the government of the papal countship of Venaissin, treated with the Hussites, and, as representatives of the universal Church, presumed to impose laws upon the sovereign pontiff himself.

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  • The unbrushed tufts of hair sticking up behind and the hastily brushed hair on his temples expressed this most eloquently.

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  • Rostopchin, coming out there with quick angry steps, looked hastily around as if seeking someone.

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  • Natasha suddenly asked, and hastily replied to her own question.

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  • Countess Mary raised her head and tried to speak, but hastily looked down again and her lips puckered.

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  • Its success pushed the filmmakers into making a hastily planned sequel.

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  • It is compelled to accept its first principles on trust from the science in which it is employed; it cannot cope with the subtlety of nature; and it is radically vitiated by being founded on hastily and inaccurately abstracted notions of things.

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  • Prince Charles, the eldest of the king's brothers, was thereupon hastily to mobilize the garrisons of all the southern fortresses, for the ostensible purpose of crushing the revolt at Kristianstad; but on arriving before the fortress he was to make common cause with the rebels, and march upon the capital from the south, while Sprengtporten attacked it simultaneously from the east.

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  • With them was the general, Demosthenes, who landed at Coryphasium with a body of Athenian troops and hastily fortified it.

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  • The new consuls were to be murdered on the 1st of January; but the plot - the execution of which was deferred till the 5th of February - failed in consequence of the impatience of Catiline, who gave the signal too hastily.

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  • With John Coxon as commander they entered the Bay of Panama, where rumour had been before them, and where the Spaniards had hastily prepared a small fleet to meet them.

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  • He raised his banner, and was, hastily crowned at Scone on the 25th of March; by that time the rising had burst out in many shires of Scotland, but it was neither unanimous nor complete.

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  • His son Guilford Dudley was hastily married to Lady Jane Grey, the eldest granddaughter of Henry VIII.s younger sister Mary.

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  • They pruned Burkes Economical Reform Bill till it left as many abuses as it suppressed; and though the bill prohibited the grant of pensions above 300, they hastily gave away pensions of much larger value to their own friends before the bill had received the royal assent.

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  • The sultan Abdul Aziz, thought unequal to the crisis, was hastily deposed; he was either murdered or led to commit suicide; and insurrection in Bulgaria was stamped out by massacre.

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  • In the contested election of 1159, for instance, though a majority of the cardinals had elected Cardinal Roland (Alexander III.), the defeated candidate Cardinal Octavian (Victor IV.), while his rival was modestly hesitating to accept the honour, seized the pluviale and put it on his own shoulders hastily, upside down; and it was on this ground that the council of Pavia in r 160 based their declaration in favour of Victor, and anathematized Alexander.

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  • Emin Pasha stated that the lion was so little dreaded by the Latuka that on one being caught in a leopard trap they hastily set it free.

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  • A punitive expedition was organized under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the success of which was a remarkable example of good organization hastily improvised.

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  • The resemblances which the members of one class often present to the members of another class in regard to the form of the limb-branches (rami) of the parapodia, and the formation of tagmata (regions) are not hastily to be ascribed to common inheritance, but we must consider whether they are not due to homoplasy - that is, to the moulding of natural selection acting in the different classes upon fairly similar elements under like exigencies.

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  • The resolutions were followed by decrees sometimes hastily and unskilfully drawn.

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  • By birth and marriage he was a Southerner, and the citizens of Norfolk counted on his throwing in his lot with them; but professional pride, and affection for the flag under which he had served for more than fifty years, held him true to his allegiance; he passionately rejected the proposals of his fellow-townsmen, and as it was more than hinted to him that his longer stay in Norfolk might be dangerous, he hastily quitted that place, and offered his services to the government at Washington.

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  • About noon on the 22nd they were scattered by a small force of whites, hastily gathered.

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  • Hastily quitting his quarters in Upper Swabia, Gustavus hastened towards Nuremberg on his way to Saxony, but finding that Wallenstein and Maximilian of Bavaria had united their forces, he abandoned the attempt to reach Saxony, and both armies confronted each other at Nuremberg which furnished Gustavus with a point of support of the first order.

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  • Ignoring the raised brow Claudette turned on her husband, Cynthia hastily set another place and graciously submitted to improper treatment as Cade helped her with her chair and then seated himself.

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  • He hastily denied his endeavors were for profit, but tossed in a caveat of "possible help with expenses."

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  • Dean did not suggest that Officer Larkin who answered the 911 call in Jake Weller's absence had acted hastily, though in his mind he questioned the shooting.

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  • The entrance under the facility was hastily dug but the tunnel running beneath the facility had thick metal walls and concrete floors and was lit by battery-operated lanterns.

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  • Dean only half remembered hastily packing his tent and gear, washing up and putting away a plate of waffles and fruit.

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  • It's a long way from being a hastily assembled Labor Party gimmick.

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  • The metallic clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant.

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  • A patchwork quilt hastily cobbled together with a sole aim; to bleed the motorist dry financially.

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  • As expected, an album was hastily compiled, titled My Cherie Amour and released in August 1969.

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  • She finally saw him for one hour in a hastily convened meeting.

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  • And [H] quite hastily changed his tune, becoming almost docile.

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  • Ewan caught sight of the barbarian's look of righteous wrath and hastily grabbed his horse's bridle.

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  • In this sense, they too hastily ascribe a purely economic motive to the present cultural studies ' boom ' .

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  • Treatment is hastily started, there is an urgent surgical referral.

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  • The names of two villages have been hastily scrawled in the sky.

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  • A passing ad sales guy is hastily appointed chief taster, and we watch with concern as he wolfs down a slice.

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  • He hastily flung some brushes into his tool kit, then straightened up and gazed at news undertaker wwe her with deep compassion.

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  • She unbuckled her girdle from around her waist and began to hastily unfasten the stones.

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  • We changed into an unmarked van and were hastily dumped by the side of the road and told to walk up a hill.

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  • After the union of Schleswig and Holstein under the Danish crown, the Danevirke fell into decay, but in 1848 it was hastily strengthened by the Danes, who were, however, unable to hold it in face of the superiority of the Prussian artillery, and on the 23rd of April it was stormed.

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  • It included, besides Hearne's Ductor historicus and the successive volumes of the Universal History, which was then in course of publication, Littlebury's Herodotus, Spelman's Xenophon, Gordon's Tacitus, an anonymous translation of Procopius; "many crude lumps of Speed, Rapin, Mezeray, Davila, Machiavel, Father Paul, Bower, &c., were hastily gulped.

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  • The use of the historical method has, in fact, raised more reputations than it has destroyed, because by keeping carefully in view the conditions in which economic works have been written, it has shown that many theories hastily condemned as unsound by a priori critics had much to be said for them atthe time when they were propounded.

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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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  • The results of the enterprise of Mehemet Ali and Jumel in Egypt prove such an idea to be not altogether fanciful, and warn us also against hastily arguing that the plan is too artificial to succeed on a large scale.

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  • Ridwan and Yagi-sian were only stopped in an attack on Damascus by news of the approach of the crusaders, which led the latter to throw himself hastily into Antioch, in the autumn of 1097.

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  • The ground is covered with fragments of tiles and pottery of the classical period, and it is probably a hastily built encampment of historic times rather than a primitive fortification, as there are no prehistoric traces (Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1903, 442).

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  • In September, his ships being lost and his force greatly reduced in number, he hastily constructed a crazy fleet, reembarked probably at Apalachee Bay, and lost his life in a storm probably near Pensacola Bay.

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  • The great colonnade, which is its most striking feature, was apparently intended for the nave of a hypostyle hall like that of Karnak, but had to be hastily finished without the aisles.

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  • Cesarini devoted all his energies to the war against the Hussites, until the disaster of Taus forced him hastily to evacuate Bohemia.

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  • Lord Kilwarden, proceeding to a hastily summoned meeting of the privy council, was dragged from his carriage by this rabble and murdered, together with his nephew Richard Wolfe; his daughter who accompanied him being conveyed to safety by Emmet himself.

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  • Other of the farmers hastily laagered and were able to repulse the Zulu attacks; the assailants suffering serious loss at a fight near the Bushman's river.

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  • Hastily and violently converted, driven like a wedge between the Eastern and the Western Empires, the young kingdom was exposed from the first to extraordinary perils.

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  • The doors of St Mark's were hastily secured, and Savonarola discovered that his adherents had secretly prepared arms and munitions and were ready to stand a siege The signory sent to order all laymen to quit the cloister, and a special summons to Valori.

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  • Hastily patching up a truce with Saladin, under which the Christians kept the coast-towns and received free access to the Holy Sepulchre, Richard started on his return (9th October 1192).

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  • All the advantages wan were hastily surrendered, and Montecucculi, sharply following up the retreat of the French, drove them over the Rhine and almost to the Vosges.

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  • This work Chillingworth engaged to answer, and Knott, hearing of his intention and hoping to bias the public mind, hastily brought out a pamphlet tending to show that Chillingworth was a Socinian who aimed at perverting not only Catholicism but Christianity.

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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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  • The specific nature of the abuses which flourished in the papal monarchy, the unsuccessful attempts to remedy them, and the measures taken by the chief European states to protect themselves will become apparent as we hastily review the principal events of the 14th and 15th centuries.

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  • He accordingly hastily drafted ninety-five propositions relating to indulgences, and posted an invitation to those who wished to attend a disputation in Wittenberg on the matter, under his presidency.

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  • In his hastily drafted Ninety-five Theses he sought to limit the potency of indulgences, and so indirectly raised the question as to the power of the pope.

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  • Then suddenly invading the Ernestine lands while the elector John Frederick was campaigning against the imperialists on the Danube, he forced that prince to return hastily to Saxony, and thus weakened the forces opposed to the emperor.

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  • Compelled to leave Madrid hastily in August 1808, owing to the Spanish success at Baylen, he was reinstated by Napoleon at the close of the year; and he was thereafter kept in a subordinate position which led him on four occasions to offer to abdicate.

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  • The Greeks of the islands had been accustomed from time immemorial to seafaring; their ships - some as large as frigates - were well armed, to guard against the Barbary pirates and rovers of their own kin; lastly, they had furnished the bulk of the sailors to the Ottoman navy which, now that this recruiting ground was closed, had to be manned hastily with impressed crews of dock-labourers and peasants, many of whom had never seen the sea.

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  • Perouse, hastily entrenched in 1870, now possesses a permanent fort.

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  • Voltaire hastily seized his pen to refute the philosophy of the Systeme in the article "Dieu" in his Dictionnaire philosophique, while Frederick the Great also drew up an answer to it.

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  • Grant, as he pushed Pemberton before him to Granada, lengthened day by day his line of communication, and when Van Dorn, ever enterprising, raided the great Federal depot of Holly Springs the game was up. Grant retired hastily, for starvation was imminent, and Pemberton, thus freed, turned upon Sherman, and inflicted a severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg (December 29).

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  • The Federal capital was at the moment almost denuded of troops, and forces hastily despatched from the James only arrived just in time to save it.

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  • The Muscovite war had no sooner been ended by the treaty of Deulina than Chodkiewicz was hastily despatched southwards to defend the southern frontier against the Turks, who after the catastrophe of Cecora (see Zolkiewski) had high hopes of conquering Poland altogether.

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  • Caesar, who had been hastily summoned from Illyricum, crossed the Loire and invaded Brittany, but found that he could make no headway without destroying the powerful fleet of high, flat-bottomed boats like floating castles possessed by the Veneti.

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  • A fleet was hastily constructed in the estuary of the Loire, and placed under the command of Decimus Brutus.

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  • In his early writings, for example, more particularly those making up Naturphilosophie, one finds in painful abundance the evidences of hastily acquired knowledge, impatience of the hard labour of minute thought, over-confidence in the force of individual genius, and desire instantaneously to present even in crudest fashion the newest idea that has dawned upon the thinker.

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  • On the 17th of June 1775 occurred the battle of Bunker Hill, in which, although victorious, the British suffered heavily, losing one-third of their force in storm ing the hastily constructed lines of the "rebels."

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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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  • Starting with a visit to Piombino, on the coast opposite Elba, he went by way of Siena to Urbino, where he made drawings and began works; was thence hastily summoned by way of Pesaro and Rimini to Cesena; spent two months between there and Cesenatico, projecting and directing canal and harbour works, and planning the restoration of the palace of Frederic II.; thence hurriedly joined his master, momentarily besieged by enemies at Imola; followed him probably to Sinigaglia and Perugia, through the whirl of storms and surprises, vengeances and treasons, which marked his course that winter, and finally, by way of Chiusi and Acquapendente, as far as Orvieto and probably to Rome, where Caesar arrived on the 14th of February 1503.

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  • Then the crowd hastily retired from the drawing-room door, at which the Emperor reappeared talking to the hostess.

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  • On seeing Natasha Pierre grew animated and, hastily passing between the rows, came toward their box.

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  • He looked compassionately at Balashev, and as soon as the latter tried to make some rejoinder hastily interrupted him.

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  • If any soldiers ran to the rear they returned immediately and hastily.

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  • Her unnatural tone made him wince unpleasantly and he replied hastily.

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  • Let us not dwell long on the wide signaled but hastily retracted when the players started running for extras.

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  • Howells hastily sent a line to say that he had been sleeping The sleep of a torpid conscience.

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  • Enrolling into a debt consolidation program is not a decision which should be made hastily.

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  • An irate Ephram hastily forfeits his Julliard audition in an attempt to get back at his father.

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  • The last thing you want is a hastily chosen design that you will spend a lifetime regretting.

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  • Some of the worst tattoos are the ones that have been inked hastily without adequte consideration and thought in regards to placement and coloring.

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  • In fact, stretching should be an integral part of your workout routine, not just something that's done hastily at the beginning or end.

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  • He hastily dialed Cynthia's mother's number, as Fred stood guard at the slightly opened door.

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  • The state, in taking over the Failways, did not exercise sufficient care to see that the lines and the rolling stock were kept up to a proper state of efficiency and adequacy for the work they had t,o perform; while the step itself was taken somewhat hastily.

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  • Count D'Estaing hastily re-embarked his troops and sailed out to meet Howe.

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  • So closed the second day of the trial; and before the next day's work could begin a note of two or three lines hastily written at midnight informed the commissioners that Elizabeth had suddenly determined to adjourn the expected judgment and transfer the place of it to the star-chamber.

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  • Unamfin was robbed on the voyage, the prince of Byblus rebuffed him, and when at last the latter agreed to provide the timber it was only in exchange for substantial gifts hastily sent for from Egypt (including rolls of papyrus) and the promise of more to follow.

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  • In the Franco-German War (1871) it was hastily taken down and concealed.

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  • Seven artists volunteered help, and the work was hastily begun.

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  • He reached Italy by sea; but the news that Roger had allied himself with Louis VII., king of France, and his old opponent Welf of Bavaria, compelled him to return hastily to Germany, which was again in disorder.

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  • On the 19th of June he laid siege to La Roche-aux-Moines, the fortress which defended Angers and commanded the Loire valley; but on the approach of a royal army under Prince Louis on the 2nd of July his Poitevin barons refused to risk a pitched battle, and he fled hastily to La Rochelle.

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  • When the Burgesses undertook in May 1769 to declare in vigorous resolutions that the right and power of taxation, direct and indirect, rested with the local assembly, the governor hastily dissolved them, but only to find the same men assembling in the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg and issuing forth their resolutions in defiance of executive authority.

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  • The three cardinals whom he charged with his defence hastily declined this compromising task.

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  • The progress of this war, the peace hastily patched up, the equally hasty alliance and its consequences, being matters of Chinese history, are treated in the article China.

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  • On realizing the truth he hastily abdicated in favour of his grandson, the duke of Bordeaux (comte de Chambord), and appointed Louis Philippe, duke of Orleans, lieutenant-general of the kingdom (July 30th).

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  • The inevitable crisis was delayed until the stormy year 1848, when the king probably saved his crown by hastily giving back the constitution of 1833.

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  • It is highly doubtful whether the three powers could have collected more than forty ships of the line - and they would have been hastily manned, destitute of experience, and without confidence.

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  • We must not, however, hastily assume that the examples thus preserved to us by a singular accident are to be taken as representing the style of building in all the Roman and Italian towns.

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  • A hastily collected force of 3000 men under C. Claudius Pulcher endeavoured to starve out the rebels, but the latter clambered down the precipices and put the Romans to flight.

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  • He hastily qualified himself by study, and entered upon the practical duties of surveying farm lines, roads and town sites.

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  • The defence of the city was hastily organized under Bem, an ex-officer of Napoleon; but in the absence of help from Hungary it was futile.

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  • The emperor, hastily summoned to Vienna, accepted obstruction attained part of their wishes.

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  • True, these works were in most cases desirable and in some cases necessary, but they were hastily promised and often hastily begun under pressure of political expediency.

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  • From Bridgwater the army marched through Glastonbury to attack Bristol, into which Lord Feversham had hastily thrown a regiment of foot-guards.

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  • On the 13th of March 1809 seven of the conspirators broke into the royal apartments in the palace unannounced, seized the king, and conducted him to the chateau of Gripsholm; Duke Charles was easily persuaded to accept the leadership of a provisional government, which was proclaimed the same day; and a diet, hastily summoned, solemnly approved of the revolution.

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  • Aulus Gabinius, the new proconsul of Syria, defeated his hastily gathered forces, besieged him in one of the fortresses he had managed to acquire, and induced him to abandon his attempt in return for his life.

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  • Abdarrahman was among the slain and the Moslems retreated hastily in the night, leaving their camp to the Franks.

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  • Sahl hastily sent a messenger to Harthama b.

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  • Tiberius was hastily recalled and had a last confidential talk on affairs of state.

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  • In the course of May 1675 a Swedish army advanced into the Mark, but on the 18th of June was defeated at Fehrbellin, and hastily retreated to Demmin.

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  • The ill-disciplined Persian army, hastily collected, advanced to attack the rebels.

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  • Fawkes was brought into the king's bedchamber, where the ministers had hastily assembled, at one o'clock.

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  • Calvin, indignant at the calumny which was thus cast upon the reformed party in France, hastily prepared for the press his Institutes of the Christian Religion, which he published "first that I might vindicate from unjust affront my brethren whose death was precious in the sight of the Lord, and, next, that some sorrow and anxiety should move foreign peoples, since the same sufferings threatened many."

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  • Travel fairs Some of these events have noticeboards covered with hastily scribbled notes from travelers wanting company.

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  • The Doctor was then hastily summoned, who, arriving on the scene, administered a wonderful pill which revived the prostrate foeman.

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  • While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty- five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.

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  • The countess, Madame Schoss, and Sonya undressed hastily and lay down.

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  • Stiff fighting took place beneath Soglio di Campiglia and Pria Fora, and the Italians withdrew to the mountain line which had been hastily prepared from Forni Alti by Monte Spin to Pria Fora.

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  • In 1415 the town was captured by the Portuguese under John I., among those taking part in the attack being Prince Henry "the Navigator" and two of his brothers, who were knighted on the day following in the mosque (hastily dedicated as a Christian church).

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  • She hastily withdrew her hand, her cheeks burning again.

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  • The houses were hastily repaired, and the The Dipylon and Ceramicus.

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  • Pierre choked, his face puckered, and he turned hastily away, went back to his trap muttering something to himself as he went, and took his seat.

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  • The clerk, with cuffs turned up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards.

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  • Pierre dressed hastily and ran out to the porch.

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  • When he espied Denisov he hastily threw something into the bushes, removed his sodden hat by its floppy brim, and approached his commander.

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