hasten vs linger

hasten

verb
  • To move or act in a quick fashion. 

  • To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. 

  • To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. 

linger

verb
  • To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so. 

  • To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually. 

  • To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion. 

How often have the words hasten and linger occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )