Harum

"I don't think Luke was ever what you call harum-scarum," said Mrs. Rowan. ❋ Unknown (1863)

“I don’t think Luke was ever what you call harum-scarum,” said Mrs Rowan. ❋ Unknown (1863)

And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment. ❋ Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 (1911)

"The pore lad's out o 'harum's rache, any way," she reflected. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)

The captain at the police station didn't say he was to breng this prosecution agen us noo; he only told us he wud tak us out o 'harum's way, and didn't make no charge.' ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)

And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Besides, had not her own cousin, -- though a remote and distant one to be sure, the black sheep, the harum-scarum, the ne'er-do-well, -- had not he come down out of that weird North country with a hundred thousand in yellow dust, to say nothing of a half-ownership in the hole from which it came? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once you get above chapter book level, it seems like almost all new fiction for kids is (or wants to be) thrilling, exciting, harum-scarum, suspenseful, non-stop, etc. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

They may prefer to dive into a thrilling, suspenseful harum-scarum world when they read. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

The courts affirmed this limited and narrow understanding until the New Deal, when Congress began to regulate harum-scarum and the Supreme Court inflated the clause into a general license for anything a majority happened to favor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"It used to be more harum-scarum, but now people are a lot safer," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You ever know the kind of story where the harum scarum youngster rises to the occasion, grace under pressure, to do the right thing? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chip was harum-scarum (an expression Madam Ma often used) but he was lovable, not always punctual but someone you could rely on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

‘Croker and Lover’, Yeats had written in 1888, ‘full of the ideas of harum-scarum Irish gentility, saw everything humorised’ Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

Waktu tujuhbelas, tidakkah kau serius sore yang indah, kau kurang bir dan lemon di cafe baca puisi dengan lampu sorot kau pergi menghilang diantara pohon jeruk rindang itu pohon jeruk selalu harum di bulan juni udara semilir, kau pejamkan mata angin berhembus, berbisik - kota tak jauh bukan - dengan harum wanita, bau bir ... ❋ Carlford (2009)

Holes are opening and closing in walls, water is floating hither and yon, time is wonky, people are going mad and being killed, it's all very dramatic and harum-scarum. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)

Kennedy's accomplishment in Hollywood was to bring a bottom-line management style worthy of Scrooge to what had been a harum-scarum business. ❋ Edward Kosner (2009)

The festive, empty ceremony, complete with spade-wielding politicos and Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," typified the Disney Concert Hall's harum-scarum history: high profile, lofty aspirations and a lot of scrambling behind the scenes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"What did you think about the latest [vaudeville] performance by [Eazy-E] and the Trapeezyz?" "[Harum]! It was barely worth my time!" ❋ Mustcollectfood (2007)

[harum] is so [fucking bad] at being a [bard] ❋ Randommonkey03 (2019)

1. Did you ever see Harum Scarum? Even as [an Elvis] fan I was slightly disappointed. 2. Harum Scarum man! The war of the [sexes]! [You dig]? ❋ Liquid Sky (2008)

[Bill]: Man, do you want to listen to some [good music]? Dave: Yeah man. Bill: I'll [break out] the Procol Harum Dave: Sweet ❋ Doktorfunk (2005)

boy1:yo did you see that girl who [walked] by? boy2:[yea] she got a bad [case] of HARUM SCARUM boy1:word! ❋ Dr Diss (2009)

Person: I have [cat ears]! Harume: What? Person : You know, cat ears. The [ears] of [a cat]. ❋ Xesthan (2016)