hurry-skurry
- a variation of hurry-scurry.
Example Sentences
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Avoided hansoms, they being too much connected with one "ugly hurry-skurry," and drove to my aunt's in a damp, dirty four-wheeler.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
I don't want any kind of old rubbish of brick and stone to be bundled into walls and partitions, and then plastered over "hurry-skurry."
Take, for instance, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," where the hurry-skurry of the verse is in complete harmony with the quaint, rapid tale.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
From the hurry-skurry observable on all sides, I gathered that the Procession was on its way—a supposition that was turned into certainty by the boom of a Royal Salute.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. by Various
"In the hurry-skurry of money-making, men-making, and machine-making," the moral side of national life was being unduly neglected.
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn
