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Definition of Hurraying
1. hurray [v] - See also: hurray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurraying
Literary usage of Hurraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Selection from the Writings of Viscount Strangford on Political by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe, Emily Anne (Beaufort) Smythe Strangford (1869)
"Look there,' he said, on the first day of his visit, turning towards a young
street ragamuffin in the Strand, cheering and hurraying with all his might, ..."
2. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"... as the enemy fell back after his last charge, that the Captain, hurraying and
rushing down the hill waving his sword, received a shot and fell dead. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"In drinking toasts, &c., it has always been the habit, I believe, to express
approbation by noise of some sort, hip-hip-hurraying, clinking glasses, ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"The hurraying brought out the old Doctor himself, who put his hand up to his
spectacles and started when he saw the old pupil. ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"When there has been a war, and stout old Sandy Sansculotte returns home from
India or the Crimea, what a bagpiping, shouting, hurraying, ..."
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