By-and-by a countryman comes up the road, evidently a labourer dressed in his best-he hastens to the 'Hotel,' instead of to the station, and finds from the porter that he is at least twenty minutes too soon.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
And by inducing people to trust their lives in his incompetent and unskilled hands he turns them aside from securing competent treatment, and so confirms disease and hastens death.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
After this, he hastens in his own carriage to the bride's home, to assist in meeting and introducing the guests at the reception or breakfast.
"The Book of Good Manners"
W. C. Green