Example Sentences

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I know not what I shall do!—All is so strangely busy!—Doors clapt to—going out of one apartment, hurryingly, as I may say, into another.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel

Her majesty rose directly, and pushing away the harp, hurryingly said: "You may leave the room;" and turning her back to Wallace, walked away through an opposite door.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

They went hurryingly along, called from their worldly affairs; and my mother imparted to me her belief that they were somewhat free of superstition because undoubtedly clean.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

Thus discoursing, on They went till unobscur'd the porches shone; Which hurryingly they gain'd, and enter'd straight.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

Which I ate hurryingly, fearing a ventral misgiving.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)