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When there has been a war, and stout old Sandy Sansculotte returns home from India or Crimea, what a bagpiping, shouting, hurraying, and self-glorification takes place round about him!

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I had the Vengeur going down, and all the crew hurraying like madmen.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Jumping out of my chair, dancing round, whooping and hurraying “like a daft thing,” as she afterwards described my movements.

From The Lady of the Basement Flat by Earnshaw, Elizabeth

The hurraying brought out the old Doctor himself, who put his hand up to his spectacles and started when he saw the old pupil.

From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I had the "Vengeur" going down, and all the crew hurraying like madmen.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace




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