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I hope the soldiers of Capua shall follow our faction, for Sylla, hearing of these hurly-burlies, is hasting homeward, very fortunate in his wars against Mithridates.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

How many several hurly-burlies of fools! for I myself sometimes sit among those poetical gods.

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John

King looks towards the Prince of Baireuth again, agreed on before those hurly-burlies now past; Queen looks far otherwards.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Carlyle, Thomas