hurry-skurry
- a variation of hurry-scurry.
Example Sentences
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Before she had been long down in the kitchen again with me, we heard a hurry-skurry upstairs, and the parlour bell ringing like mad, and my mistress's voice calling out for help.
From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie
In the hurry-skurry of money-making, men-making, and machine-making, we had altogether outgrown, not the spirit, but the organisation, of our institutions.
From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
You can imagine the wild hurry-skurry and fun, the comic situations and upsets over a rough road, up and down places one would be giddy to look at.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
The pulling and hauling, the hurry-skurry of the mad exit must be left to the imagination.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis
I beg your pardon for going backward and forward in this way in my hurry-skurry.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
