Example Sentences

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Although disguised, the bustle's impact cannot be hidden.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2022

All that hustle and bustle’s too much for me.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Here in this mummy-case, you know, I've thought How well I might have swept his floors for ever, I'd ask no night off when the bustle's over, Enjoying so the dirt.

From Poems by Owen, Wilfred

In evil hour—by what chance ne'er was known, Whether the bustle's seam had come unsewn, Or MRS.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

A bird in a cage may peep, at least, though she must not fly.—What bustle's there beneath my window?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir