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Definition of Hursts
1. hurst [n] - See also: hurst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hursts
Literary usage of Hursts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Highways and Byways in Kent by Walter Jerrold (1914)
"CHAPTER XII CRANBROOK AND THE " hursts " THOUGH it was of Sussex that Mr.
Rudyard Kipling was singing when he wrote of " Belt upon belt, the wooded, ..."
2. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Hokusai by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1901)
"from every day life rather than from the fashionable belles ; a most sensitive
gradation of line from thin to thick, until at last it hursts into a thick ..."
3. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"316. Broadhurst.—Local, ' of Broad- hurst,' ie the broad wood (v. Hurst).
The Cheshire Broad- hursts spring from some small spot in the east ..."
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