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  • Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
  • With loud hurrahs from appropriate quarters and much general ballyhoo, my friend went along to that victory parade in London.
  • Before the day few thought that on 3 June a million or two groupies would throng the Mall to watch a bunch of clapped-out old-stagers presuming on the public's indulgence for one last hurrah.
  • Before we fall inevitably for the deep, deep peace of mounds of fluffy winter veg, let's have one final hurrah for the hurly-burly of the autumnal veg patch. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes
  • I think the Suns are hoping that they can rest him for the season and get one last hurrah from the big man in the post season and win the title. Stupid Trade
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  • Galactica's last hurrah is tonight, but with Caprica on the horizon, fans of BG still have something to look forward to. March 2009
  • There were speeches and champagne, and the Dane-brog was hoisted amid hurrahs of our compatriots. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
  • The whole auditorium echoed with the shouts, whistles, and clapping of the group of kids, it was certainly intoxicating to be there; one couldn't help but break out clapping, and hurrahing themselves.
  • Hurrah, up with her now, altogether!" came the next cry; and then, the anchor was bowsed up to the cathead to the lively chorus that rang through the ship, the men walking away with the fall as if it had no weight attached to it. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • I've worked out how to colour line drawings, hurrah.
  • Hurrah for the Hymns!" cheered Brereton, as a number of the gunners and matross men dropped, and the remainder, deserting the cannon, fell back on the infantry. Janice Meredith
  • He's made it clear that this Olympics, his third, will be his last hurrah.
  • The boys hurrahed vociferously when they left what they called wretched little England; but subsequently Richard held that his having been educated abroad was an incalculable loss to him. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • MILD SPOILER ALERT In the episode, change is afoot as TV's most endearing and unaffectedly sexy married couple, Coach Eric and Tami Taylor the sublime Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton face a personal crossroads while Coach's underdog Lions head to the state championship in their last hurrah. Roush Review: Dim Sunshine, Glorious Justified, FNL Farewell
  • They had disappeared when I went to bed last night, and I was like, hurrah!
  • Hurrah for the return of pounds and ounces! The Sun
  • Joe has proved his ability over many years in the Premier League - sometimes against us - so it will be fantastic to play alongside him in a red shirt for Liverpool," hurrahed Mbe. $tevie Says Relax, I'm Staying At Liverpool
  • And I did a ton of commercials and music videos, and that went on for a while, and I think the last kind of hurrah I had with music videos was I did all the videos off of the Green Day record American Idiot, and we won a bunch of awards at the MTV Awards in 2005. Interview: Samuel Bayer, Director of A Nightmare on Elm Street | /Film
  • I haven't even begun to think about quitting, or having a last hurrah, or allowing my career to wind down.
  • One called it 'the last hurrah of winter '. The Sun
  • Hurrah to Matt and Alice and Paula for budging up to make room for me.
  • I've worked out how to colour line drawings, hurrah.
  • All audience hurrahed the girl singer.
  • Hurrah too for squirrels, nature's fur-covered ninjas who are getting friskier and demanding-er as the weather improves. And a sky like a baby's blanket
  • Petersen has said that this season will be his last hurrah as a player.
  • I admit it, I hurrahed! flinthart apologised to the spiders. New Years Eve and other bits
  • It's hoped that this will be an annual event - hurrah!
  • This must be his swan song, the last hurrah. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bridget hurrahed, and they ran home to our raised-ranch with raised-hopes!
  • Her financial partner, fittingly, is Kenneth Lerer, a former executive vice president of the Internet boom’s last great hurrah, the company formerly known as AOL Time Warner. Someone Uncovers a Blogging Business Model
  • And the "hyphens" raise a loud hurrah and blow themselves to drinks; New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • This, then, was the secret of the unwillingness of the authorities to encourage the search for gold, and it is after all due to the fact that the search was ultimately successful beyond all precedent, that Australia has been for so many years relieved of the curse of convictism, and has ceased once and for all to be a depot for the scoundrelism of Britain -- "Hurrah for the bright red gold! Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
  • a sheet, and when she unexpectedly came upon us she was at first very much frightened, but soon discovering that we were Confederates, she pulled off her bonnet, waved it over her head and "hurrahed," and then burst into tears. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
  • And now - hurrah - the gang of mega-brained poshos from MI5 are back for a new series and more crazy international crime-busting.
  • People hurrahed to de Gaulle for 20 minutes.
  • Denying him his last hurrah is preferable than putting him to death; after all, if he's dead, he'll never suffer the years of slow torturous boredom and deprivation that life in prison will bring him. May 2006
  • Don't you listen? Discover, highest to WTO hurrah is Chinese common people.
  • Like all acclamations in frequent use it lost its primary meaning, and became a kind of vivat or hurrah of joy, triumph, and exultation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • A triple gold medalist in Sydney, he is searching for a final hurrah on the Olympic stage, namely the defense of his title in the 100 backstroke.
  • Hurrah for easy-to-use home colouring kits bursting with gentle ingredients like apricot milk, jojoba and wheat-germ oil.
  • This time I fled to the front, and was inquiring of some of the family whom I encountered, as frightened as I, what it could mean, when a hurrah from a crowd concealed behind the garden wall recalled to us that it was a salute of crackers and a display of fireworks to celebrate his Excellency's birthday. Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
  • Everyone ought to lead a parade once in their life, just to experience the curious sensation of marching down the middle of the street to cheers and hurrahs.
  • This must be his swan song, the last hurrah. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mainstream Keynesian economics is facing its last hurrah.
  • And tonight might be Planet Earth's last hurrah, that is if anything goes wrong with the launch of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. NewTeeVee
  • Hurrah!’ said Philip to himself, ‘the priestling did not get the best of that.’ Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • Never fear, there was a Makarram Khan,13 until I shot him on my last furlough; he will give thee a shabash* (* Hurrah, bravo.) from hell, for he was a stout rider in his time. Fiancée
  • But when you are woken up by jugglers throwing batons and chainsaws, and all the hurrahs, that gets a little annoying.
  • The speeches went on, the ‘Internationale’ was being repeated for the tenth time, the sailors performed their fancy exercises and the claqueurs on the reviewing stand were shouting hurrahs.
  • Hurrah!" he shouted; "here comes another ship under a fore-jurymast and her bowsprit gone. The Rival Crusoes
  • And he was enjoying his last hurrah here in the Fifth Test. The Sun
  • It's a tribute to Rimington's chairmanship that this commitment to easeful enjoyment is loyally echoed by colleagues, with her fellow judge and author Susan Hill tweeting: Hurrah! The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
  • Margaret and I were with him in the chart-room when he hurrahed the barometer, down to 28.55 and falling. CHAPTER XL
  • Is it just one last hurrah for the old warhorse? Times, Sunday Times
  • The liberal class gasped when he vetoed a "millionaire's tax"; business owners hurrahed. The Chris Christie Clones
  • His unsuccessful senate run was his last hurrah.
  • Hurrah!" shouted Seth Allport, his ringing voice making itself heard above the sound of the rushing water and the echoing chorus of the men's cheers; but, an instant after, his exclamation of delight was changed to one of dismay, as a flight of arrows and the ping of rifle bullets whistled around the party, while the dread war-whoop of their Indian assailants burst forth in all its shrill discordancy. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
  • While de folks wuz swarmin '' roun 'and laffin' and hurrahin ', an arrer uv convicshun went in ter his proud heart an' brought 'im low. John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher
  • This must be his swan song, the last hurrah. Times, Sunday Times
  • Let's give Winter one last "hurrah" with these cupcakes named after the Abominable Snowman. Archive 2008-03-01
  • This bait took "capitally," as Van used to say, and not only were two hundred shanties built, but the praise of the "ginerous contractors" was in every mouth; and "Hurrah for Lofin, Van Stingey, & Co.," became a regular toast among the men, as they went to spend a shilling in the company's grocery store. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Enter
  • Holiday plans to Spain were also discussed - hurrah!
  • Everyone ought to lead a parade once in their life, just to experience the curious sensation of marching down the middle of the street to cheers and hurrahs.
  • Nicon called at the sense of it and the rest hurrahed and backs were slapped and hands clasped and, yes, there were still hard feelings, but those would be paid later, individually. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
  • Petersen has said that this season will be his last hurrah as a player.
  • This huge, unfinished building represents the last hurrah of the former regime.
  • On this latter occasion the ministers are said to have "uttered reiterated cries of 'banzai'" *, which has come into vogue once more in modern times as the equivalent of "hurrah. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
  • let's give the team a big hurrah
  • There were roars, applause, hurrahs, horn-blowing and whistling when he finally got there.
  • Actually, the Italian Prime Minister deserves a double chorus of hurrahs!
  • And he was enjoying his last hurrah here in the Fifth Test. The Sun
  • Some minor, wayward part of my subconscious would appear to be suggesting a last hurrah. Times, Sunday Times
  • The young men, fired by the strong wine, shouted and hurrahed, and shrieked, and such a din arose as threatened to drown the music.
  • You vote fer him, an 'hurrah fer him, an' whar's yer promise 'lan'? The Earth Trembled
  • This was his last hurrah but even today, he still stays in the boxing games by refereeing fights in Ohio.
  • It was a grand sight to see her sweeping down toward us, with the cool clear water flashing up under her sharp bows, and there was -- ah! see, it was no dream, after all; hurrah! she comes -- _she comes_! The Voyage of the Aurora
  • And hurrah, Flickr have automatically updated my geotags so that you can now follow my Go West walk in the new format.
  • This policy has been prosecuted with zeal under the hurrah label of vocationalism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hurrah for Rupert Murdoch and his high-principled publishing house! For reals?
  • The fellow -- switching often within seconds into and out of Aunt Lucy's sort-of-Brazilian outfit -- sings, dances, jokes, mugs and romances with the kind of verve that should propel him from recognizable player to hurrahed musical leading-man, if only the right subsequent part comes along. David Finkle: First Nighter: City Center Encores! Series Where's Charley? All-Singing, All-Dancing, All-Lovable
  • It cannot make up its mind whether it is a hurrah or a boo-word. Times, Sunday Times
  • This means I can afford to buy the jeans I have been lusting after, hurrah!
  • It's set in 1865, the year regarded as the last hurrah for bushido, the samurai code (Japan was on the verge of leaving its self-imposed isolation).
  • One called it 'the last hurrah of winter '. The Sun
  • My only recollection of it is, that there was great slashing at the banks and aristocrats that ground the faces of the poor; for I was on what our opponents called the hurrah side, and these were the things we talked about. Sheppard Lee
  • Is it just one last hurrah for the old warhorse? Times, Sunday Times
  • Three months ago he confirmed he would come out of retirement for one last hurrah. Times, Sunday Times

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