He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do. " "Can I keep her?" "For the love of. . . No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged.
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
Do not believe hastily.
One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.
The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as is usually done. It is the most important and practical question which is put to man. Let us not answer it hastily. Let us not be content to get our bread in some gross, careless, and hasty manner. Some men go a-hunting, some a-fishing, some a-gaming, some to war; but none have so pleasant a time as they who in earnest seek to earn their bread.
What is done hastily cannot be done prudently.
I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.
Forgive me. . . . I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?
The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 911, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.
She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.
It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
