Skurry

For this very reason philology is now more desirable than ever before; for this very reason it is the highest attraction and incitement in an age of "work": that is to say, of haste, of unseemly and immoderate hurry-skurry, which is intent upon "getting things done" at once, even every book, whether old or new. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Madame Beck herself, if forced to the enterprise, would "skurry" through, retrenching her skirts, and carefully coasting the formidable estrade, like a ship dreading breakers. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

It was not until they had left the mountain behind them, crossed the flat, and come out on the river by the saw-mill, that the bustle and skurry of human life made it seem possible for them to speak. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Promptly, in a wild outburst, he was up and away, tumbling me over on the floor as he dashed out in a mad skurry around the yard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still liddle skurry doe so ais glad yur boi is getin obers it ❋ Unknown (2009)

My mama wanted skurry klown bed for herself sine she saw Simpsons episode. ❋ Unknown (2009)

August 29, 2008 at 8:42 am i has a lunch dayte, i muzt skurry off. thanks for karing i will chek bak layterz wiff hoeps hye! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mice will be encouraged to skurry akross the dinner table to provides entertainment for da guests! ❋ Unknown (2008)

July 7, 2008 at 2:55 pm kitteh on left….. moove iz my turn to be skurry ❋ Unknown (2008)

The people do not run “_hurry skurry_” along the streets, but there are no idlers to be observed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Until at last they got so jumbled together, in the hurry – skurry, helter – skelter, of the match, that whether the kettle chirped and the Cricket hummed, or the Cricket chirped and the kettle hummed, or they both chirped and both hummed, it would have taken a clearer head than yours or mine to have decided with anything like certainty. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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)

Away skurry the young ladies from the roller, down comes Mrs.P. from the old chair, off flies Tummus to change his clothes, and in an incredibly short space of time Sir John Hawbuck, my Lady Hawbuck, and 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)

When I came here on purpose to have a skurry over the country with you, you went away to Holcombe Cross though you could have hunted here, close in the neighbourhood. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hurry-skurry, a mixed multitude of men and horses, carts and carriages, all in the direction of the old town; and, in the midst of all that mad throng, at a moment when the rain-gushes were coming down with particular fury, and the artillery of the sky was pealing as I had never heard it peal before, I felt some one seize me by the arm — I turned round, and beheld Mr. Petulengro. ❋ 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)

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)

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)

*[skurries] to your nearest [location] and screeches* ❋ Readyplayerone1 (2022)

That is [skurry] ❋ Oliviva (2023)

Get your [keys] and [skurry] [along]. ❋ Onesness (2016)