Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws; “bankrupt of life yet prodigal of
ease” [Dryden]; “better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay” [Tennyson]; “idly busy rolls their world away” [Goldsmith]; “the mystery of folded sleep” [Tennyson]; “the timely dew of sleep” [Milton]; “thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep” [Longfellow]; “tired Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep” [Young].

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     #684.  Haste. —­ N. haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration,
spurt, spirt[obs3], forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity &c. 274; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness &c. adj.; impetuosity; brusquerie[obs3]; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter. 
     V. haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash &c. n.; hurry on, dash on,
whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry[obs3], scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush &c. (violence) 173; express.
     bestir oneself &c. (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment,
lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one’s time, make the best of one’s way.
     be precipitate &c. adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry &c. n.;
have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time.
     quicken &c. 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge,
whip; railroad. 
     Adj. hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate,
headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.
     in haste, in a hurry &c. n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless,
pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent. 
     Adv. with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste &c.
adj.; apace &c. (swiftly) 274; amain[obs3]; all at once &c. (instantaneously) 113; at short notice &c., immediately &c. (early) 132; posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.
     hastily, precipitately &c. adj.; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry[obs3],
holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu[Fr].
     by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump. 
     Phr. sauve qui peut[French:  every man for himself][panic], devil take
the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; a word and a blow; haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto [Italian]; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German][Goethe’s motto]; “stand not upon the order of your going but go at once” [Macbeth]; “swift, swift, you dragons of the night” [Cymbeline].