How To Use Hurried In A Sentence
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Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy.
The Titan
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My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty.
III.9
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As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
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Their clerks, mostly in straw boaters, hurried along.
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Owing to these qualities they are utilised for prolonged and searching reconnoitring duties such as strategical reconnaissances as distinct from the hurried and tactical reconnaissances carried out by fleeter machines.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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She hurried her hands to press the papers which were hiked up by a wind.
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The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings.
Maid in Waiting
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Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain.
The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
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We surrendered the cameras and hurried away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The screw driver is mightier than the sword, hey, Dink?" called the irrepressible Roy, as Dinky hurried away into the darkness.
Tom Slade with the Colors
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The Duke shakily got to his feet, and he hurried out of the room, just as a servant and two guards entered.
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I hurried through the cold dark streets, guided more by my sense of direction than my eyes.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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She hurried downstairs to fix herself some breakfast.
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She hurried to answer the knock at the door.
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She hurried home, terrified, and told her mother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Little cookie unfolds her colorful umbrella hurriedly in order to block the raindrop.
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She dipped her goose-feather quill into a jade inkpot, drained the red ink along the side, and unhurriedly marked a circle around the black tent the eunuch had pointed out to her.
Shadow Princess
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Fifty-One Julie Craig heard the car pull up in the driveway and hurried across to the landing window-to look out.
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There has been no such command performance since his hurried but deeply flawed return from serious injury.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though they began talking about marriage almost immediately, they let their physical relationship unfold at an unhurried pace.
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Rising hurriedly, she soon was neatly dressed and combed.
Heidi
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But as soon as the rifle had flashed there was the _fad, fad, fad_ of hurried steps, something whizzed in at the window, and with
Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
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she asked him, and hurried on in across the esplanade of concrete, into the gallery, out of the cold.
LOST CHILDREN
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As the citizenry hurried up the steep streets of Citadel in a tide of rumour and fear, the family made its own way to the assembly ground.
A TIME OF WAR
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As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle.
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Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson.
DARKWATER
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The slow and deliberate steps of philosophers, here, if anywhere, are distinguished from the precipitate march of the vulgar, who, hurried on by the smallest similitude, are incapable of all discernment or consideration.
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Ignoring the shivery thrill that raced down her spine, she hurriedly obeyed.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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Vandy hurried up and down a rolling ladder with various bolts of cloth, putting one back almost as soon as she pulled it out.
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A servitor, his apron stained with particles of food and slops of wine, hurried up, his greasy, uncombed hair masking his face.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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When darkness descended we hurriedly cleared the kitchen table in order to commence our fretwork.
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Its unhurried but sophisticated citizens boast not only high incomes but also high levels of education.
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The two attendants quickly hurried forward and roughly seized Angel about her arms.
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She spun away from the mirror and hurried downstairs, forcing the curling tension aside.
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I hurried back, feeling sorrier for Clarence than I did for myself.
Raven
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Mr Smith hurriedly sought to retract the statement, but it had just been broadcast on national radio.
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Sudden inspiration struck her, and she hurried over to the corner of the room.
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I hurried down the aisle and reached the door in time to glimpse Nepos and his retinue of attendants heading across the Forum in the direction of the rostra.
CONSPIRATA
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Pulling off my dirty pinny and revealing my clean black uniform underneath I hurried out of the house and around to the back door of the Thornton's house.
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Slow fades and dissolve shots are also used to complement the film's unhurried, unforced pace.
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She hurried to answer the knock at the door.
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His style is much the same here as on those discs: calm, unhurried, and deliberate.
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Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture.
Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
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He had recovered his balance quickly, grabbed a fire extinguisher and hurried back towards the fire.
Bomber
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Golden eye or yellowtail grunts, chubs or scads would move unhurriedly across, changing direction with uncanny synchronisation.
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A man on a tuk-tuk hurried along with a chainsaw, the most in-demand piece of equipment at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Downing Street denied there had been a hurried overnight redrafting of the text.
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Meanwhile, many Western tourists hurried to leave the country, heeding warnings from their own governments that it was not safe to stay.
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Now the lake was placid in the heat of the afternoon, the tiny wavelets lapping the shore like a hurried metronome.
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At the camp at Kokinia, outside Athens, 'lorries were being hurriedly packed, stores and equipment were flung about anyhow, officers' valises and suitcases were lying open with their contents scattered around as if the owners had made a hasty choice of their more valuable belongings at the last moment.
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Dwarves, all wearing brightly coloured pointy hats, hurried pass on all manner of errands.
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She jumped up hurriedly and said suppose they go in and have some raspberry cordial.
Anne of Green Gables
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She hurried home and pleaded with her husband to attend the next Bible study and to come under the counsel of this godly pastor.
Christianity Today
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She took a piece of paper from the notebook from one of the shelves in the hallway and then found a handy dandy pen and began writing in a neat yet hurried script to her mother.
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He alighted on the word beau hurriedly, like a bird coming to ground with a little bounce.
Twilight in Italy
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Some climbed the masts to unrig her, others rushed into the hold to get out the cargo, and numbers hurried to the cabin to carry off the lighter articles which it contained.
Old Jack
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She meant to try first with that big girl who had helped her put on the shoeman's bronze slippers; and she hurried through the office, pushing purblindly past
Ragged Lady — Volume 1
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The stewardess hurried the passengers onto the plane.
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And we both hurried off filled with relief; Tony because he'd got away with setting the fire alarm off, and me because Tony had saved me from what had seemed a certain caning.
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Robin ducked out to look up and down the hall, then brushed past Feng as she hurried back inside.
Excerpt: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
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I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.
Wuthering Heights
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The strength of this production lies in its unhurried pace; far from boring us, it entertains in an elegant and original way.
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The King was inconveniently lingering so they hurried him along with an injection into the jugular vein of a mixture of morphine and cocaine.
Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn Off the C(H)uff: David Seidler Protects and Defends The King's Speech
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The children laughed and catcalled and pushed and shoved as they hurried toward the exits.
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The farmers hurried to make hay before the rain came.
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With the dried tail of a herring sticking out of their saffron-coloured, shrivelled chops, Lord! how they gaped when I passed by, hurriedly, like
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find my mother busily preparing breakfast, after which I was given my big present.
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Anxious to escape thoughts so little comprehended, King hurried on, and essayed a feeble 'cooee' when a few yards from the sleeper.
The Red True Story Book
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So, rapid acceleration and braking along with enthusiastic cornering will all scrub more rubber from the tread than unhurried progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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A waiter zipped over and deposited two glasses of water and a dish of mixed nuts on their table, took their drink orders, and hurried off.
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Our native British trees are changing leaf colour in a modest, unhurried fashion, achieving no more than soft, undramatic russets, yellows and ochres before the leaves fall away to leave bare branches stroking the sky.
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We said goodbye and hurried off through the dense, happy crowds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Natalie hurried up and put her long, straight strawberry blonde hair up with golden butterfly clips and got dressed.
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The boyfriend rang but I hurried him off the phone so I could talk to her.
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Squinting at the sudden brightness, she hurried over to the watch tower and scaled the steep stairs.
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During her lunch period, Claire left the hospital and hurried two doors down the street to the P and C Supermarket.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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The unhurried proceedings in court are likely to allow him considerable time to mull his options.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Hurriedly she called her mind to order: she didn't usually allow her thoughts to skitter about like this.
STAGE FRIGHT
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A couple wearing windcheaters hurried past on their way to fitness and good health.
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In the hurried process of moving to a new command himself, Hibbard thinks he might have signed off on the award.
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Elinor rose, and going to her bag that was still dangling from the chair back where she had flung it in her hurried preparation for dinner, took out a cardcase, and drawing forth three square bits of gray cardboard, handed them to Patricia.
Miss Pat at School
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He hurried back, cooeeing and calling her name without getting an answer.
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He hurried through the postflight checks and secured the controls.
Reap the Whirlwind
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There was nothing hurried or hastily thought-out about their earthworks.
TREASON KEEP
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Prudence dressed quickly and with Almira hurried to the girls 'rooms while Calvin hastened down the stairs to the scene of destruction.
Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
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The five children scrambled to their feet and hurried out of the tent leaving the men to talk.
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He hurried into the hall, banging his shin against a chair in the darkness.
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It was raining when I arrived and the traffic had been busy so I was only just on time, I hurried into the chapel area, took a seat near the back and started to polish the raindrops from my glasses.
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The colours should be seen to flow at a steady, unhurried pace.
The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
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Too many hurried shots from unlikely angles hampered their comeback attempt.
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On landing at Alexandria, we were hurried on board a large mast-less canal boat, shaped like a Nile dahabeah.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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What to do: come for the fabulous walking, scenery and unhurried pace of life.
Times, Sunday Times
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His hands hurried to undo the clasp of his cloak and spread it out on the grass.
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witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating " wicked ".
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‘It's just a passing remark,’ he hurriedly back-pedalled, sensing something wrong.
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To try to open one of these monstrosities is an exercise in masochism — hurriedly I discard them with the dispatch with which one would thrust away a venomous snake.
I Am Sorry to Inform You
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We dumped our bags at the nearby Grand Hotel and hurried towards the market.
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Her eyes watered and she hurried to wipe the tears away from her face as Alex turned around.
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The rest hurried in horror back to the coach.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed.
III.4
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But it could be also interpreted as further brinksmanship, designed to hurriedly solve its food and oil shortages.
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My arrival produced a sensation that stopped all this, and I was hurried by a kind of tumultuary welcome into the parlour.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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My companions hurriedly dropped me off at Chateaubelair, near Richmond, leaving me to wade ashore waist deep.
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Built in Glasgow in 1910, this vessel tramped her way around the globe for the next three decades, until she was requisitioned by an Admiralty hurriedly preparing for a war it was desperately unready to fight.
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Abbot, also taken by surprise at Thorne's sudden change of tactics, hurried to open the door for them.
UNTO THE GRAVE
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The sole sign of perturbation was in her hurried breathing.
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Since her sickness, Ernestine had slept alone, and Bea had gone over with Olive; so now, as they hurried in, they saw her untumbled bed, with just the slight pressure made where she had lain down, as though gone to bed for the night; everything else was unchanged.
Six Girls A Home Story
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There's a way of life vastly richer and deeper than all this hurried existence, a life of unhurried serenity and peace and power.
Christianity Today
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Maybe financial imperatives hurried things along.
Times, Sunday Times
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They hurried along, the smack of their feet the only sound that echoed in the dank cavern.
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The pace is slow, relaxed, unhurried and soothing.
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Finishing her packing hurriedly, she said farewell to the body of Delbert Donnelly and, calling her rosaries to her, made her departure.
SACRAMENT
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Immediately, the doors swung open, and a soldier hurried out, carrying a lit lantern.
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One photographer and his assistant guided us hurriedly, shuttling between studios with different layouts.
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But, aiming to arm themselves with terrific and overwhelming strength, by invoking the cooperation of forces from the spiritual, invisible, and diabolical world, with rash "precipitancy," they hurried on the witchcraft prosecutions.
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
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She hurried down the corridor.
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And so I made another hurried dash through the twisting labyrinth.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Latecomers hurriedly kneel and bow, trying to catch up with the group prayer in progress.
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I heard a gentle tap at the hall door, then a hurried colloguing in the hall; and Hannah put in her head and whispered: --
My New Curate
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At the command every student in the room hurriedly parked themselves in their specific seats and waited for instructions from the teacher, Madame Besson.
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The pace is unhurried and silence almost never impedes the flow of events.
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In the case of phones, paying $1.50 for a high quality call is far more cost effective than paying 50 cents for a short call hurriedly read by an uncommitted caller.
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Plosh!" went Mr Jones right in backwards; and "spatter" went the foul mud all over his face and shirt-front, and then the poor little man tried to scramble out, but slipped in again, making himself worse than ever; but his next effort was more successful; and when Sam saw him standing amongst the potatoes looking all piebald, his heart was joyful within him, as he hurried home to tell the boys the success of their plot.
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
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At least there was plenty of empty ground on which to scope out a hurried new design.
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Invent three broad - mindedly jumping over dyadic wrong tier of space design, life is unhurried deduction.
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At last an area five feet square of the sail was fothered, lines were rove through the grommets, and the working party hurried forward to work the sail under the brig and drag it aft to the hole.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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The fire of the Inn flickered as its customers called for ale and stew, and Nali and the other barmaids hurried around, taking orders.
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Sipping an unhurried aperitif, the menu not only makes your mouth water, it brings tears of joy to the eyes.
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Fifty-One Julie Craig heard the car pull up in the driveway and hurried across to the landing window-to look out.
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Doctors had been unable to find a pulse as they hurried to their next Medicash-insured mugging victim.
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The pace is unhurried, the treatment is even-handed, and the effect is fascinating.
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They hurriedly set about constructing fortified positions in the sewers, cellars and vaults which honeycombed the entire ghetto.
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Having baffled them all, she laughed scornfully, flung deceit to the winds, then hurried straight to the "fastness," and there uttered the tribal call.
Flowing Gold
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the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful
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Twenty British officers hunted up and down for the places supposed to have been reserved for them, and sweating servants hurried after them with arms full of heterogeneous baggage, swearing at the crowd that swore back ungrudgingly.
In The Time Of Light
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The day was cold, and students hurried across campus to warm classrooms.
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With a desperation that was madness, unmindful of the pain, he hurried up the slope to the crest of the hill over which his comrade had disappeared — more grotesque and comical by far than that limping, jerking comrade.
LOVE OF LIFE
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Mr Smith hurriedly sought to retract the statement, but it had just been broadcast on national radio.
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She quickly stood, giving a hurried curtsey which only seemed to make him more uneasy.
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African's opinion the highest that could be paid to a man or a boy, and hurried off to wake "the bugologist" as be disrespectfully termed the professor.
The Boy Aviators in Africa
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They are not Barnes and Noble, nor one of those great independent bookstores where I used to spend more than one rainy winter evening, but still, for the hurried traveler that cannot afford the luxury of a lengthy visit to a good bookstore, the Atlanta complex is a reasonable succedanea.
Back from The Empire
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Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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The ship has not yet arrived, but will doubtless be here in a few moments, the bad weather having delayed her; and my luggage is all hurried down to the tender, where I should be sent, too, did I not wail with hunger.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Gordon - whose gentle, unhurried manner lulls one into a feeling of calm - says a placid nature is essential for the job, but he is realistic about the rewards it brings.
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Actually, absquatulate means to leave hurriedly, with the implication that one is being pursued.
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When she saw me, she rose and came hurriedly at me with a gugglet58 of water; and, muttering spells over it, she besprinkled me and said, “Come forth from this thy shape into the shape of a dog;” and I became on the instant a dog.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He was beginning to want more than hurried couplings on fetid, scratchy straw, to want a bedmate he did not have to buy.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Before we sat down, she hurried and dusted off each of the chairs.
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The older nurse clucked in a matronly manner and the two nurses, together, hurried the girl into the back room to find a doctor.
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But what's a barracouta?" demanded the Babe hurriedly.
Children of the Wild
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The word inflamed him; and he hurried to his room to prepare for departure.
St. Cuthbert's
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Considering this, it's only logical that swimmers ought to make it a habit to practice movements that are smooth, unhurried and fluent.
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A half dozen of the most senior American national security officials were summoned to a hurriedly called late-night emergency meeting in the White House Situation Room.
The Prize
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The girls hurried out before the employees had a chance to call the truant officer and ran down the street.
Arcana Magi Zero - v.3: It's So Wonderful, It's So Beautiful
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Men and women, all indistinguishable from the creature who had shared its house with Conan -- there were no children, Conan noted -- moved about the village in the same unhurried pace, lugging an empty basket here, dumping a pale of water there.
Archive 2009-12-01
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We hurried out into the roasting midday sun, squinting through the haze at the stand-off on the next hilltop.
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Well Dearest, last night I dreamed of meeting you at home and after a sweet embrace I hurried to the bed with you, to see our four cherubs, who were all sleeping not knowing that I was present.
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Having finished the hurried and uncomfortable meal, consisting chiefly of tinned tongue and a rather out-of-date cream cheese, Toni was allowed to run home to change her dress; and at half-past two precisely she was back, robed in the daintiest, filmiest white lawn gown, to take her place with the other stallholders, in readiness for the opening ceremony, performed, much to the delight of the entire Madgwick family, by a real duchess.
The Making of a Soul
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Hurriedly she genuflected toward the golden shrine in the vestiary™s corner, then parted the curtains and stepped through.
Chosen Of The Gods
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Hailey hurriedly scrambled off the bed, and lunged at James with her arms outstretched.
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Breeze saw the brass plate from afar, and hurried up the path.
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In a hurried retraction from the source of the story we hear that the Weinsteins are merely dreaming of the project, don't own the rights and casting hasn't even been thought about.
Filmstalker: Gypsy still a dream
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Imagine the thrill of watching your name flow by hurriedly on television and film credits…
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Charles hurriedly had his friends assist him in launching his rowing skiff and went after the dolphins.
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She hurriedly started pulling notebooks and books off of the top shelf, almost at random.
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He eats hurriedly, chewing with his mouth open as he stuffs more food in his mouth.
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a construction hard hat and a raincoat to hurriedly deconsecrate a historic Anglican chapel, which had suffered irreparable damage.
FOXNews.com
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They from the fociety 'of men i' rfwayi have no idea rf our feemg them, fliut up in their hoofes, they have Ipealung to 'diem, and touching lio ctimmunicatioit but with their them without' emotion, or without hulband, their father; their bro - being hurried headlong to'extremi - thcr, or fometimes their coufin.
The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany
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The complex large-scale forms of serious music unfold their narratives in time with an authority that cannot be hurried.
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He whistled and a servant hurried out from behind the ladies and came down to the flagway to shield them.
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We hurried an oral agreement before signing a formal contract.
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Hurriedly, he held up two bolts of fabric, one green, one blue.
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Then the young officer hurried off with the tumbler to check the fingerprint files at headquarters.
THE VIKING SYMBOL MYSTERY
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Hurriedly, he moved to the front of the column where Faulkner was walking.
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Kate hurried home, conscience-stricken at leaving her mother alone.
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people strolling about in an unhurried way
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Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
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His cigarette went out and he hurried to find matches.
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April winked and I hurried after, opening my mouth and screeching out my lines.
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The pace is unhurried, but as the story progresses, a tenderness and warmth seep through the flat tone.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hurried through the labyrinth of corridors to emerge in my bedchamber.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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It's often the hurried meal that's packed with the most fat and cholesterol.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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As the door closed, he noticed one of the flight attendants watching him as she hurried toward the passenger cabin.
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This is a far cry from a more leisured age when elegant vessels with teak decks with highly polished brass pottered about the Mediterranean making unhurried stops at little Aegean ports.
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The cars came screeching to a stop in the driveway; my mother hurried into the house.
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We said goodbye and hurried off through the dense, happy crowds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just three skimpy draft scenarios that had been cobbled together hurriedly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Infinitely reassuring was the unresting, unhurried suspiration of the air-pumps, driving the man-made trade winds of this tiny planet.
The Sands of Mars
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We know, present adolescent has been an early group, any trying that hurried back them " Tong Zhi " the purpose of the times, be proved to be infructuous .
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There are some who say that blogs lack gravitas, that there is no quality writing, that the analyses are hurried and ill-considered.
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Fear of the rats hurried even those with the fluid stomach of embryonic dysentery or gastroenteritis.
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A few older men hurried home with hastily purchased groceries, battening down for a siege.
Day of Honey
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I hurried over and he pointed out an enormous monitor lizard which had just crawled out of the water to sun itself on a rock.
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The peals of the Hiltonbury bells rung merrily in the cold air, the snow sparkled bridally, the icicles glittered in the sunset light, the workpeople stood round the house to cheer the arrival, and the sisters hurried out.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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an unhurried walk
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Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat "down front," crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to "run it through just once more" with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_ -- not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated.
Miss Billy's Decision
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He then hurried up the stairs and, grabbing Marlette's arm, propelled him through the door and into the church.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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With his fellow skipper's famous bareheadedness ravaging his enterprise, Webb had Cavanagh run up two fine custom hats and hurried to the White House to give one to the President and one to Kennedy's long-time friend, a businessman named Red Fay.
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