He seems to be in no hurry about it, but lets them wait.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
“I have heard of the gentleman,” cries Dowling, “often; but I never heard any ill character of him.”—“And
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Well, whoever it was, the visitor had been in no hurry about it!
— from From Now On by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
"We've read a lot about it together, but I never had an idea of it until now.
— from Sir Harry: A Love Story by Archibald Marshall
I've seen ribbons, and threshing machines and wheat and corn for a long time but I never had any idea how much brains people had before this.
— from The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens
It is best adapted to form a bush, its natural habit, and is best used singly.
— from The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. (William) Robinson
In fact, I’d be in no hurry about it at all if I only had a longer time to live.”
— from The Best Policy by Elliott Flower
But he need be in no haste about it, and of course, it would be the very farthest from his desire to imperil, in the slightest degree, your interests in order to save his own.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Mark Twain
This gentleman, whom we will call Richard Brooks, for the sake of a name, was born in New Hampshire, and, indeed, was raised there, at a place about twenty miles from Leonard's father's, the two being about the same age.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters
The Spectator did not believe in Nicholas Hart, and introduced the subject to the public with his usual humour in No. 191.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten
His private services are unknown: they must be, as we conceive from their being unknown, of a suspicious nature; and I do not go further than suspicion, because I never heard, and I have not been without attempts to make the discovery, what those services were that recommended him to Mr. Hastings.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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