Then we were all bustle in the house, which made me keep out of the way, for I walk slow and hate a bustle; but the house was all hurry-skurry, preparing for my new master. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Templemore, we commenced our hurry-skurry just as inclination led — now across the fields — direct over stone walls and running brooks — mere pastime for the cob! — sometimes along the road to Thurles and Holy Cross, even to distant ❋ Unknown (2004)
There had been something grotesquely indecent about the haste of every one concerned: the chaplain, gabbling like a parrot, out of regard for the safety of his own lungs; the hurry-skurry of the diggers, whose thoughts were no doubt running on the size of their gratuities; the openly expressed satisfaction of the few mourners, when they were free to hurry off again, as in hurry they had arrived. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Huguenot (hu'ge-not), a French Protestant of the sixteenth century. hurry-skurry (hur'ri-skur'ri), confused bustle. husbandman (huz'band-man), a tiller of the soil, a farmer. ❋ William H. Elson (N/A)
Then all was hurry-skurry in the hospitals; everybody was willing to help, but the effectual organization was not yet ready. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then it was all hurry-skurry with Betty and her, to get their dark deeds done before their victim's return. ❋ Various (N/A)
We struggled through long lines of heavy-laden country carts, and swarms of clattering _droskies_, all striving to force their way along with that hurry-skurry that adds to confusion and lessens speed; and we came at last to a long pontoon bridge, over which we crossed the Oka, and beyond which rises the hill-range or ravine, on the top and at the foot of which is built the straggling town of Nijni-Novgorod. ❋ Various (N/A)
But if you would have a sense of being terribly alone, come from long residence in some quiet country-home on the border of a quiet country-village, into the hurry-skurry of a strange city, just after nightfall. ❋ Various (N/A)
I don't want any kind of old rubbish of brick and stone to be bundled into walls and partitions, and then plastered over "hurry-skurry." ❋ Various (N/A)
There was no hurry-skurry to disturb the even tenor of the way but there was not a moment lost, and, while every movement was rapid, there were no false starts made. ❋ John Van Der Zee Sears (N/A)
Right in the midst of the solemn affair some mischievous fellow gave a squeak and a big jump; and away they all went hurry-skurry, for all the world like a lot of boys turned loose for recess. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
Suddenly every song ceased, and the whole company dashed down, pellmell, hurry-skurry, into the thick brush heaps of the hollow. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The gay bustle and hurry-skurry of arriving and departing parties, the great dames and languid gentlemen lounging on the terraces, the feasts and dignified dances -- these are very pleasant for us to look back on, but what did they seem to the human beings, the players, actors and singers, who watched the show go on? ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
The trick succeeded; for in the hurry-skurry that ensued the impassive girl positively laughed outright. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)
To see the crows all flying home at the same hour every evening is an interesting spectacle, and popular imagination has found an amusing comparison for it in the hurry-skurry of people running to a fire. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Avoided hansoms, they being too much connected with one "ugly hurry-skurry," and drove to my aunt's in a damp, dirty four-wheeler. ❋ Various (1876)
"Alas! the age of golden leisure is gone -- the iron age of hurry-skurry is upon us!" ❋ Unknown (1871)
I must do them the credit of saying that they would not have set the dog at poor Bill, and that they could not have stopped him if they had tried ever so hard, which, in the hurry-skurry of the affair, they had no chance of attempting. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
At stated intervals, pale blue smoke would burst from the vessel, followed by a hurry-skurry of gulls in the vicinity, and then the roar, muffled by distance. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)
The pulling and hauling, the hurry-skurry of the mad exit must be left to the imagination. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)
