Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurraing
Literary usage of Hurraing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"The five steamers that we had passed were now hurraing with delight to see that
we should be humbled in our turn. ' Captain,' said I, ' will you let ..."
2. Trial of John R. Buzzell: Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts (1834)
"I heard a hurraing at the Convent—I went to Malden bridge. I staid at the toll-house
half an hour—four persons came along—we concluded ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"says some one ; and all of a sudden, helter skelter, skurry hurry, slap bang,
whooping, screeching and hurraing, blue-coats and red-coats, bays and greys, ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"... young Masters Alfred and Edward clapping and hurraing by his side ; while Mr.
Clive and Miss Ethel sat in the back of the box enjoying the scene, ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1836)
"The refreshed Orangemen returned to the bridge, and were soon heard hurraing for
Maghery. Colonel Verner hastened with Captain Lloyd and his gamekeeper to ..."
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