hurry-scurry

Example Sentences

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Having been chased hurry-scurry from Kiangsi Province right to the suburbs of Changsha, Hunan, the Chinese turned around and, with a fury they have never shown before, lashed the Japanese back and back.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hurry-scurry, the angry hum of recent weeks had departed; a quivering stillness now permeated the premises.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

The streets were filled with the hurry-scurry of a moving army, splashing through mud puddles.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

There was the same bleating of sheep, the same laughing, joking, lilting, singing, and piping; the same hurry-scurry of dogs and men; the same prevailing busy-ness and activity; but everything was multiplied by twenty.

From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon

Then I sat down to watch, and, sure enough, such a puck-fisted rabble, without cloak or hosen, I never beheld—all hurry-scurry up the hill, and some of the like were on the gallop down again.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John