Definition of Hurryings

1. hurrying [n] - See also: hurrying

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurryings

hurried up
hurriedly
hurriedness
hurriednesses
hurrier
hurriers
hurries
hurries up
hurry
hurry-skurry
hurry up
hurryed
hurrying
hurrying up
hurryingly
hurryings (current term)
hurst
hursts
hurt
hurt locker
hurt someone's feelings
hurtable
hurted
hurter
hurters
hurtest
hurteth
hurtful
hurtfull
hurtfully

Literary usage of Hurryings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Inner Life of the House of Commons by William White (1904)
"There were hurryings hither, hurryings thither. Messengers, who had previously secured hansom cabs, were scudding away with the numbers to all parts of the ..."

2. Mrs Overtheway's remembrances by Juliana Horatia Ewing (1881)
"The 'green valley, beautified with lilies,' in whose meadows the air was pleasant; where ' a man shall be free from the noise and from the hurryings of this ..."

3. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (1909)
"Besides here a man shall be free from ^^ the noise, and from the hurryings of this life. All had his ' states are full of Noise and Confusion, ..."

4. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"Then came sudden alarm*; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Besides here a man shall be free from j£ejj,j£ the noise, and from the hurryings of this life. All had his ' states are full of Noise and Confusion, ..."

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