How To Use Hurrying In A Sentence
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It's no good hurrying into learning the piano; it's a long slow job.
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We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side.
Orrain A Romance
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As I straightened up I was jostled, very slightly, by Doreen and her companion, hurrying to get past.
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No harvest can be enlarged by frantic hurrying about.
Christianity Today
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Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown.
Within a Budding Grove
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The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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What is your technique for hurrying things along?
Times, Sunday Times
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She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat.
The Call of the North
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Lyndon knew that I was concerned in the plot, for I met her hurrying the next day to the Castle; all the town being up about the enlevement.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the
The Golf Course Mystery
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Hurrying out with a profound sense of failure, she brushed by a man watching from the stairs of the rehearsal studio.
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Who was that strange looking lady with the colourful bonnet hurrying along the road and what was that peeping out of her basket?
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He has little time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street.
Sole Music
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We see an anxious looking woman hurrying along a busy street.
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Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up.
Gatlinburg
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Michael came hurrying towards Sean at the top of the aisle and took Noreen's other arm.
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The _agitato finale_ means the close of the passage with a hurrying movement.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature
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Henceforth, my friend," said he, "moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your own safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and, above all, take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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'To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Froomkin: A Blow Against Tyranny
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He's a good worker but he needs hurrying up.
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In a confused sort of way -- as if I had dreamed it -- I remember that Nora came flying down the stairs in her dressing-gown and bare feet, and nurse hurrying behind her, both crying out in a frightened way, -- something like, "Oh, _lawkes_! what _have_ them boys been doin '?" and, "Oh, boys, _boys_! what _is_ the matter?
We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
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Brett said brusquely, shutting the passenger side door and hurrying around to open his own.
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The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise.
"...my music is also seductive, even spiritual"
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On the opposite side of the house, several hundred yards away, the country turnpike ran; and from this there now reached them the rumbling of many vehicles, hurrying in close procession out of the nearest town and moving toward smaller villages scattered over the country; to its hamlets and cross-roads and hundreds of homes richer or poorer -- every vehicle Christmas-laden: sign and foretoken of the
Bride of the Mistletoe
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I looked up and saw Jamila hurrying towards me in black T-shirt and white shorts.
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Last summer several British drivers caught hurrying on their way to Le Mans were each fined 750 euros, an eye-watering £500.
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Fish splashed in small pools and the sweet scent of the river hurrying by charmed our days.
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Let not my disappearance upset you at all, for I am hurrying off to commend you to Christ.
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Hurrying to a livery-stable, he hired a horse and buggy and a lantern, and drove to the shunpike.
The Captain's Toll-Gate
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Frankie and Wes left the party rather abruptly after that, bidding hasty goodbyes and hurrying out to the car.
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But then his wife's angry voice could be heard berating and hurrying him, and he slammed his shutters.
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But Lady Lyndon knew that I was concerned in the plot, for I met her hurrying the next day to the Castle; all the town being up about the enlevement.
Barry Lyndon
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After a washout on Wednesday, the queue down Church Road was encouragingly huge and inside the All England Club players were hurrying to the practice courts.
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‘I'll do it,’ Gabe said, scrambling to his feet and hurrying off to find extra blankets for their guests.
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Andrea's annoyed at me for hurrying her across the road - if we had been our usual indecisive self, we would have been better placed.
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By that time college students and their black-caped Jesuit professors were hurrying across the grassy campus to classes.
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The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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I was swept along to my class by the tide of students, hurrying to arrive before the next bell rang.
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Get out of my way, you beggar!" he cried, pushing past Capitola and hurrying from the house.
The Hidden Hand
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Hurrying back to the office he found the would-be client gone and his boss apoplectic.
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One of the strongest arguments for the view that this Outline of the Future was evolved by Raven from his inner consciousness is the fact that there are several passages in which he seems to argue with himself, and that the quiet unhurrying assurance of the earlier and later narratives is not sustained in these middle parts.
The Shape of Things to Come
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Apparently the code is printed inside each pack, so there's no point hurrying down to your local offy / bottleshop with a pen and paper.
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affection for this hurrying driving...little man
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Just then, she heard the loud blaring sound of an ambulance siren as it screamed by her vehicle, hurrying up the road in the one empty lane that had been sectioned off by orange cones.
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To complain about me 'harbouring' Ern, I suppose," said Fatty, hurrying to the window at the back of the shed.
The Mystery of Banshee Towers
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Carson let the door swing behind him, hurrying through into the sitting room and reaching for the receiver.
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The novella is about masculine middle-age, with Victorian males hurrying into their enclaves or laboratories to escape all kinds of ever-present threats, such as the new woman.
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‘You may wait there,’ said the guard, pointing to a bench beneath a tall fig tree, before hurrying through a stone archway into another yard beyond.
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After taking Gytheum Nabis returned with his army equipped for rapid marching, and hurrying past Lacedaemon he seized a position known as Pyrrhus 'Camp, which he felt quite certain that the Achaeans were making for.
The History of Rome, Vol. V
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The Christmas holidays he would of course pass with his family at Killaloe, but he hardly liked the idea of hurrying off to Killaloe immediately the session should be over.
Phineas Finn
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She turned and left the kitchen, hurrying out the back door toward the jakes.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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A few days later I saw him hurrying ahead of me as I walked away from the campus toward the subway.
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One day he received a "soaker" of a snowball in his left ear while hurrying to the gymnasium.
The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods
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He bade us haste if we wished to quit the Louvre ere the pontlevis were raised, and hurrying after him we made our way to the southern gate, the only one open.
Orrain A Romance
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Then came a swift agitato finale -- a breathless, hurrying, trembling movement, descriptive of flight, and uncertainty, and vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling wings, and left us all in emotion and wonder.
The Ontario Readers Third Book
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As we spent time dithering on what to have it was reassuring to feel as though the staff weren't hurrying us along.
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Hurrying back to the site, she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date.
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One, two, three, the hurrying mules passed, leaving the smell of dung diffused in the gray air.
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a flood, a tornado, a strike, or a famine, there would go hurrying a generous consignment of the "Aglaia" at its "nothing" price.
Sixes and Sevens
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I can hardly believe the spring is here, and the garden hurrying on its green and flowered petticoat -- only its petticoat as yet, for though the underwood is a fairyland of tender little leaves, the trees above are still quite bare.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
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She has taken hold of my arm, is hurrying me back down the hall.
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Danielle suddenly exclaimed, hurrying to the window to look out again.
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Boys bearing trays loaded with water bottles and cans of soft drink are hurrying towards us.
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He was hurrying along the pavement, quickening when we could make a yard or two, dawdling in each hiatus.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He turned the corner onto Eaton Square and, hurrying through the evil weather, came to the five-story white town house with its formal quoined facade.
Floating City
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The passengers, getting wind of some excitement, were hurrying sternwards, and he pushed along with them, glad to forget his sore feelings for a minute.
All Aboard A Story for Girls
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Antonio burst out of the lift, pushing past me and hurrying out with Chase, the two of them conferring rapidly.
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She was hurrying to saddle her horse when a familiar nicker from a stall father in the stable floated to her ears.
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Lincolnshire roads tend to be populated with lunatic drivers on a Saturday evening, all hurrying to get there first and competing to see who'll be added to the casualty figures for the weekend.
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The little girl, in shorts and a shirt, hurrying down the corridor.
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There were many people abroad, going to and fro, unhurrying, but not aimless, and I watched them so attentively that were you to ask me for the most elementary details of the buildings and terraces that lay back on either bank, or of the pinnacles and towers and parapets that laced the sky, I could not tell you them.
A Modern Utopia
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There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise.
"...my music is also seductive, even spiritual"
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The general meaning of the apostle is the same, that it was no sin to marry, if a man thought there was a necessity upon, to avoid popular reproach, much less to avoid the hurrying fervours of lust.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past.
Times, Sunday Times
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The village was astir for the duties of the day, white fustanellas were hurrying in every direction toward the fields.
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Lovers Walk captures the egotism of love, the moments when you have eyes only for each other; the passersby are the extras, hurrying by unaware of their walk-on role in this everyday romance of tingling possibilities, wounded hearts and stalking tendencies.
Lovers Walk
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“It is a bedlamite world”: Menzies, Dark and Hurrying Days, p.
Human Smoke
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Give care and attention without hurrying, so that the resident is kept as comfortable as possible until the end.
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Perceiving that the tears are hurrying fast, she unpins her strings and throws them languidly backward, a touching gesture, indicative, even in the deepest gloom, of the hope in future dry moments when cap-strings will once more have a charm.
VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles. Book I—Boy and Girl
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Right away," he called sheepishly, muttering, "Be back in a moment," to Flint before hurrying to the table.
Flint, the King
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Carson let the door swing behind him, hurrying through into the sitting room and reaching for the receiver.
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‘I'd rather walk,’ I responded curtly, sidestepping him and hurrying for the door.
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It had begun to sprinkle lightly, but instead of hurrying home, he ignored it.
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Servants bustled around, hurrying to do his bidding because he had the right to lop off their heads if he had the mind to.
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Blinding along a motorway at 90 mph is terribly inefficient, but an awful lot of people do it - and I don't mean business people hurrying to keep appointments.
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Spurred on by the word dishonor, he had started instantly, without awaiting his leave of absence, risking his place and his future prospects; and, hurrying from steamships to railways, he had not stopped until he reached Paris.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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While I was able to reach her at once, every possible obstacle of a delayed and blocked transportation system interrupted the journey of her husband and children who were hurrying to her bedside from a distant state.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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Why wasn't I hurrying to a phone to call and get corrective instructions to the appropriate building?
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The man clambering after her (he did "hirple" with the right foot, Kirsteen observed with pleasure) suddenly slipped down with an oath, for he too had seen the newcomer, and presently she heard his footsteps on the road hurrying away.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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Hardy were hurrying their horses through, when the youngest dog, nose to the ground and tugging his yokemate along, let go a cry of discovery and began to dig furiously under a bottom rail.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines
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One may travel for league after league along this slimy water and make head for days and weeks against its current -- which glides everlastingly past the dahabiya, in little hurrying waves -- without seeing this warm, fecundating river, compared with which our rivers of France are mere negligible streams, either diminish or increase or hasten.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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Alma and Spicheren, and wherever death has his red flag a-flying, and sounds his own potent tuck upon the cannons, there also must the drummer-boy, hurrying with white face over fallen comrades, batter and bemaul this slip of skin from the loins of peaceable donkeys.
An Inland Voyage
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Even though he was hurrying, he seemed to shlump back into the house.
The Christmas Thief
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I looked up and saw Jamila hurrying towards me in black T-shirt and white shorts.
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So, inverting the condition of the city clerk in the days when London was scarce inhabitable because of the coaly foulness of its air, the labourers now came hurrying by road or air to the city and its life and delights at night to leave it again in the morning.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Several of the company had smiled at her in recognition and a few were hurrying over to greet her.
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It was 5.30 pm and he was hurrying to the local recycling centre to sell his cartload of scrap paper before it closed at six.
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Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.
Swann's Way
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We didn't talk for long - whoever she was with was hurrying her along (so mid-nineties) but there was something about her which made me worry.
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Outside, office workers are hurrying home and the city's more adventurous tourists, guidebooks open at the Where to Eat page, are out hunting a restaurant for dinner.
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The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
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Amid the clattering trams and the hurrying crowds at the Hackescher Markt, the golden litter bin stands out.
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I sit drinking a pisco sour at a street café behind the cathedral watching people hurrying along the busy street.
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“Henceforth, my friend,” said he, “moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and above all take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.”
The Alhambra
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All the hurrying, worrying bustle of the world would be shut out, and she could concentrate on her innermost thoughts.
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Hurrying into the heart of the library, the musty smell of old ink and rotting paper curled around her nostrils.
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Though Campbell and the messenger continued to confer, calling a groom for the horse and hurrying into the house, I heard no more.
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The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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Perfectly delighted at the idea of standing face to face with a person of whom she had heard so much, Dora removed her high-necked apron, and throwing it across the tub so that the sleeves trailed upon the floor, was hurrying away, when her foot becoming accidentally entangled in the apron, she fell headlong to the floor, bringing with her _tub_, _suds_, _clothes_ and all!
Dora Deane
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Claire shot a furious look at us through her tears before hurrying after her brother.
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Lord Palmerston had scarcely shaken hands with the Speaker, in congratulation upon the end of a dull Session, when the Premier was hurrying Yorkshirewards to shake hands with
London: Saturday, August 16, 1862
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Tired students heaved their bags across their shoulder, hurrying out, heading for the blissfulness of their homes, or the quiet of the library.
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We lost no time in hurrying through the gathering darkness, back to the camp; and, having arrived there, lighted our stove for the first time this autumn.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic.
The Path to Rome
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At their backs they always hear, time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carrying a silver flask and a tiny glass stoup, the innkeep came hurrying back.
A TIME OF WAR
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He exchanged the time of day with the clerks hurrying to the railroad station; he did not disdain to ask the roadmender, seated on a pile of stones, how his labor was getting on, and where he would work next week; he leaned on the gate to listen as if enrapt to the groom and gardener of a neighbor of Clemenceau's, regretting that the hubbub of cracking guns and other ominous explosions was driving their master from home.
The Son of Clemenceau
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No harvest can be enlarged by frantic hurrying about.
Christianity Today
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He was about to say more when they heard the door slam downstairs and footsteps hurrying up the stairs.
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hurrying their education along
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She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the
Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest
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For the second time in his life Amory had had a complete bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.
This Side of Paradise
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Passengers hurrying in and out, or ambling nonchalantly, occasionally stopping to window-shop.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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'I may be too easily alarmed; but, with the bustle and fuss my uncle makes about every thing he pursues, he seldom fails of carrying his point; and he is now elated with his success over the prudent and worldly-minded Mr Fitz-Owen, and believes his interposition would every where prove as infallible as it has done in hurrying up this marriage for Philippa.'
The Old Manor House
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The pavements were thronged with people, all hurrying along dragging their Christmasses home in carrier bags.
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What is your technique for hurrying things along?
Times, Sunday Times
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She was staring at an organ grinder instead of paying attention to where she was going, and she bumped into a man hurrying home.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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The two guards walked into the room, with servants hurrying back and forth.
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On the tenth of May, at about 5 P. M., all hands were called to reef topsails, and a forecastle man, who was hurrying aloft to assist his companions on the foreyard, fell from only a few rattlings above the sheerpole upon the deck, and injured himself so severely as to cause his death early the next morning.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
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Five minutes later, showerless, York was hurrying out of the club, not bothering to give Gavin the lecture he deserved.
More Twisted Stories Vol II
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He was still unhurrying as when he had ridden out of
Wolf Breed
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Hurrying over to 818, she was not very surprised to find the door slightly ajar.
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Hurrying back inside, he wrote his phone number on a sticky note and taped it to the fridge.
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I quickly snatch up the nightdress they had left me, along with underwear, and quickly put them on before hurrying outside and down the stairs.
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War was manifestly drawing nearer, in Eastern Asia, in Eastern Europe; it loitered, it advanced, it halted, and no one displayed the vigour or capacity needed to avert its intermittent, unhurrying approach.
The Shape of Things to Come
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A wicked wind blew through the town, snapping shutters still open, throwing leaves into faces, pushing to the ground folks hurrying home in the falling darkness.
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Keeping her eyes straight ahead, she zigzagged between people hurrying to class.
Choker
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Watching Court's smooth unhurrying movements, the splayed limbs leechlike on the rock face, he found himself reliving some of the climbs of his boyhood and making the ascent with them, mentally documenting each stage.
She Closed Her Eyes
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I pant for breath to boys Residence downstairs, but stops. People are hurrying to and fro.
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But to the extent that we have any concern for international support, whether for its political or material value, hurrying the process will be costly.
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And though CBS usually notes shots that are on tape, the practice was overlooked in hurrying to get Tom's hole-in-one on the air.
USATODAY.com - Golf ratings slump along with Tiger
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They made it in the end: City executives hurrying for the racecourse shuttle bus beside builders and decorators.
Times, Sunday Times
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He made his way along the shoreline, hurrying as he realised how late it had grown.
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In its short life of months it lives through an eternity of unhurrying perceptions and of big sensations.
The Extra Day
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I hugged both of my parents before securing my black back over my shoulder, pulling my newsboy cap lower over my face and hurrying to my gate.
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He felt all three of them now were hurrying along one of those long, hooped, twisting nets used to trap water fowl.
THE LAST RAVEN
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The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
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These pages cover general themes, such as the strength of the king in the endgame, not hurrying, and the principle of two weaknesses.
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He came hurrying aft, nearly tumbling once; while, left to his own power alone, the coxswain redoubled his efforts to keep down the water, and the tin baler went _scoop scroop, scoop scroop_, and _splash splash_, as he sent the water flying.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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But, little by little one herb and flower after the other becomes individualized -- they are artists living themselves out into hues and lines and parts of a tableau; the vine draws itself in an arabesque which is perfect _because_ self-forming; and the whole harmonize with the sway of sunlight and shadow, with rustling breeze and hurrying ant on the footpath, and chirping birds, so exquisitely that you may feel, as you never have in studying human art or in poetry, that tones, colors, curves, organisms
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Natalie arrived shortly after eleven, hurrying her shivering niece into the heated car.
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Hurrying from the room, his mind turned dizzying somersaults with thoughts of his missing wife and what her reappearance might mean.
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He turned and walked on, sometimes hurrying for a few paces, sometimes dawdling.
PROSECUTOR
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No one minded, because fast food - with the emphasis on fast - is exactly what hurrying, scurrying transients want.
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Hurrying down from the wall, he made his way through the ranks of defenders to the catacombs the lay beneath the fortress.
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And up the heights of Alma and Spicheren, and wherever death has his red flag a-flying, and sounds his own potent tuck upon the cannons, there also must the drummer-boy, hurrying with white face over fallen comrades, batter and bemaul this slip of skin from the loins of peaceable donkeys.
An Inland Voyage
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All their hurrying is in order to complete their work for the love and glory of God.
Women of God
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As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Ben now drove about town in a vehicle called a buckboard and spent the entire day hurrying from job to job.
Poor White
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For the moment, I looked round bewildered; but the report of the pistol had caught the ears of the guard, whom I saw hurrying to unpile their muskets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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Monty dismissed the subject with a motion of his hand, and turned to talk with Kagig, who shouted for yoghourt to be brought at once; and that set the sons of the owner of the place to hurrying in great style.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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I don't know about you, but I enjoy drizzly, cold winter afternoons - night closing in, lights from the traffic reflected in puddles, hurrying to get back to a nice warm home, that kind of thing.
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Hurrying across the paved stone road, they came up to the gate of the wooden stockade wall.
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Obviously grateful to be released, Brenda gave her a peck on the cheek before hurrying down the hall past the electrologist 's.
SORT OF RICH
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With the exception of the railway station clock, this was the only one in the main street, and to excursionists particularly, hurrying to catch their trains, the presence of this clock would be greatly appreciated.
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Other people could be seen on the streets now, hurrying animals that dashed in and out of store to cars or homes, getting what needed to be done, done.
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I'm coming," Marcia said, hurrying from the kitchen, with a bucket of warm water and a scrubbing brush.
Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
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She could see one now, hurrying through the herb garden to the little hut where they worked.
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They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors.
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benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
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As I glanced up a round, balding man was hurrying toward me, wiping his pale hands on a dusty apron.
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Hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
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He was receding obliquely with a curious hurrying gait.
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Passengers hurrying in and out, or ambling nonchalantly, occasionally stopping to window-shop.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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Then came a swift _agitato finale_ -- a breathless, hurrying, trembling movement, descriptive of flight, and uncertainty, and vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling wings, and left us all emotion and wonder.
The Canadian Elocutionist
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The modern tendency is to shorten everything - in cricket they're now claiming that one day is too long for a match and are trying to invent ways of hurrying it up.
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He arrives on the dot, his tall, dark-haired, slightly rakish figure hurrying up Petergate through the crowds.
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In the distance she sees the threshers, hurrying to cut the wheat.
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Suddenly, Aurelia came hurrying around the corner and tripped over his foot.
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People milled around, some walking around leisurely and others hurrying about their business.
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Then, falling into place one behind the other, a string of a dozen airships dropped with unhurrying swiftness down the air in pursuit of the American fleet.
The War in the Air
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The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.
The Growth of the Soil
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While other students were hurrying to get to class, Rocky was walking at a semi-leisurely pace.
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Yet viewing those reflections is itself a powerful act, since it allows a momentary self-knowledge "vividly pictured" out of the flux of "the hurrying stream" of time and space:
Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape
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They pause a moment to take stock of the figures hurrying about them in the dark.
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Arguing the while, she dragged her by the hand with the idea of hurrying her off there and then.
Hung Lou Meng
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Daniel came hurrying along the passage, and thoughts of entrapment seemed all at once far-fetched.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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Are you too big to be kissed even by mother?" called Susanna, hurrying to her boy, who submitted to her embrace with better grace.
Homespun Tales
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The torrents of Maine are hasty young heroes, galloping so hard when they gallop, and charging with such rash enthusiasm when they charge, hurrying with such Achillean ardor toward their eternity of ocean, that they would never know the influence, in their heart of hearts, of blue cloudlessness, or the glory of noonday, or the pageantries of sunset, -- they would only tear and rive and shatter carelessly.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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Amid the clattering trams and the hurrying crowds at the Hackescher Markt, the golden litter bin stands out.
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It was only as they were hurrying back to their respective homes that night did they become themselves again - two adrenalized teenagers who felt as if they had conquered the world in an hour.
