hastily

adv

1. In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.

   “The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”

   “The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.”

   “Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]”

2. (obsolete)Soon, shortly.

   “she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].”