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Unhurried

adjective

Relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste. "An unhurried walk" , "Spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"

Capable of accepting delay with equanimity.

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"Unhurried" Quotes from Famous Books

... pack-horses, feeling as unimportant as a small boy at the heels of a circus parade. His girl captain was so competent, so self-reliant, and so sure that nothing he could say or do assisted in the slightest degree. Her leadership was a curiously close reproduction of her father's unhurried and graceful action. Her seat in the saddle was as easy as Landon's, and her eyes were alert to every rock and stream in the road. She was at home here, where the other girl would have been ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... was double-checking the amount, David Houston glanced at him. Sir Lewis looked perfectly calm and unhurried, as though he were doing something perfectly legal—which, in a way, he was. And, in another way, he most definitely was not, if George ...

— The Penal Cluster • Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)

... it that only fair words, aided by tactful displays of tea and tobacco, could penetrate its reservations. Desire was quite unhurried. But presently she began to extract bits of carefully hidden knowledge. It had to be slow work, for, witless as he of the hawk-eye seemed, he was well aware of the value (in tobacco) of a wise conservation. ...

— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... not know much about it. I read the psalms some, and some chapters in Isaiah, and the gospels and some in the epistles, but I have no grasp of the whole book; and your second law seems a little beyond me." Then you listen to the third law, namely: time alone with the book daily. It should be unhurried time. Time enough not to think about time. At least a half hour every day, I would suggest, and preferably the first half hour of the morning, rising at least early enough to get this bit of time before any ...

— Quiet Talks on Power • S.D. Gordon

... was impossible to reach the sea-wall without being seen, so I made no attempt to do so. I just set off in the direction of the creek, strolling along in the easy, unhurried fashion of a ...

— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges

Words linked to "Unhurried" : careful, leisurely, deliberate, measured, patient, easygoing, hurried, easy