As she spake thus, Miss Wren removed the key of the house-door from the keyhole and put it in her pocket, and then bustlingly closed the door, and tried it as they both stood on the step. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She had bustlingly pushed Martin through the door and settled her wrap and taken a mincing, elegant pose, ready for the street, and waved her hand and made wide, scared eyes at Hannele, and was gone. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They were, and when she stepped inside, she had an instant to realize that it seemed as bustlingly busy as any weekday here before the rush of memory hit her. ❋ Davis, Justine (1998)
And bustlingly the good doctor departed, with Mrs. Splinter majestically descending to hold whispered conference with him at the gate. ❋ Various (N/A)
[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. ❋ Unknown (1910)
"Well, now, the day before yesterday we had a case," Zociya mixes in bustlingly. ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)
The Grand Duke, Peter Leopold, the practical, economical, priest-hating, paternally-meddlesome, bustlingly and tyrannically-reforming son of Maria Theresa, was not the man to console so mediæval and antiquated and unphilosophical a thing as a Stuart. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
"No, thanks," said Josh, in his most bustlingly-bounderish manner. ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)
The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son's words and began bustlingly searching for something. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)
High above me, a cautious raven flew by, heavily and sharply cutting the air with his wings; then he turned his head, looked at me sidewise, and, croaking abruptly, disappeared beyond the forest; a large flock of pigeons rushed past me from a barn, and, suddenly whirling about in a column, they came down and stationed themselves bustlingly upon the field -- a sign of spring autumn! ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)
Reginald Lowestoffe was bustlingly officious and good-natured; but, used to live a scrambling, rakish course of life himself, he had not the least idea of the extent of Lord Glenvarloch's mental sufferings, and thought of his temporary concealment as if it were merely the trick of a wanton boy, who plays at hide-and-seek with his tutor. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Friday, while contemporary artists such as Plan B, Tinie Tempah and Chase and Status are given the smaller stages in the tents, yet prove seam-bustlingly popular. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We see them in their environments, ranging from solemnly rural to bustlingly urban. ❋ Unknown (2010)
