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Hurriedly   /hˈəridli/   Listen
Hurriedly

adverb
1.
In a hurried or hasty manner.  Synonyms: hastily, in haste.  "Hastily, he scanned the headlines" , "Sold in haste and at a sacrifice"  Antonym: unhurriedly.






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"Hurriedly" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned hurriedly and looked for his faithful follower. But there was no Pat in sight, and flushing painfully, he cried, "Oh, he's left behind. I must run back at once, or he'll be lost ...
— Dick Lionheart • Mary Rowles Jarvis

... sometimes developed into wild riot. Young men in barouches would rattle from one house to another all day long. "The ceremony of calling was a burlesque. There was a noisy and hilarious greeting, a glass of wine was swallowed hurriedly, everybody shook hands all round, and the callers dashed out and rushed into the carriage and were driven rapidly to the ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... said to himself; and seizing his lamp he ran along till he came to the door of the ancient keep, which was standing open: he took the way he and the rest of the party had gone the previous afternoon, and found the doors that were usually kept locked all open. Going on very hurriedly, he came to the room where the bare rafters were the only flooring, and at the other end of it he saw something like a white heap gleaming. He strode across instantly, and stooping with the light in hand discovered ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. • Various

... night," said his wife hurriedly. "Poor thing, what with the others being ill she's 'ad a dreadful time, and she said if I'd take Charlie for a few—for a night, she might be able to ...
— Deep Waters, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs

... a similar condition of haziness hurriedly entered the Court and took up the case in which he was engaged; but forgetting for which side he had been fee'd, to the unutterable amazement of the agent, delivered a long and fervent speech in the teeth of the interests ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton


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