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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...humbling."--1583. VirgiVs Eneis, by R. Stanyhurst, book i., ed. 1836, p. 3. "For to kil a wooman though no great glorie be gleaned, Though valor and al honour from such weake victorie flitteth, Yeet to slea this firebrand, of all hurly-burly the foundresse, Must be commended."--1583. VirgiVs jEneis, by R. Stanyhurst, book ii., ed. 1836, p. 52. "When the hurly burl/s done, When the battle's lost and won."--Macbeth. Bariiffa: a brabling fray, a bickering, a quarrell, a hurlie-burlie."--Florio. "All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly, every man measured the danger by his own fear."--Knolled Hist. Hurly-burly, adj. tumultuous. "Which gape, and rub the elbow, at the news of hurly-burly innovation."--1st part Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1. Hurly-burly, v. to make a bustling noise. "This hurly-burlies all the town, Makes Smith and Harris prattle." „--1678. Information (Wilkins' Political Ballads, 1860, vol. i., p. 214). Hurry-burry, sb. a tumult, great confusion. "I never leugh sa meikle a' my life, To read the king's birth-day's fell hurry-burry, How draigl'd Pussey flies about like fury." (Jamieson's Scottish Dict.)--1816. A. Wilson's Poems, p. 45. Hurry-burry, adv. in confused haste. (Aberd.) "There dashy bucks, and ladies trippin, Wi' sklentin airs; But hurry-burry runnin' loupin' As till red fires." (Jamieson's Scottish Diet.)--D. Anderson's Poems, p. 116. HURRY-SKURRY, sb. 1. An uproar. Jamieson. 2. Great hurry. "What a hurry-skurry you are in." Hurry-skurry, adj. confused. "Then clatter'd the horses hoofs along In the hurry-skurry flight of the strong."--1866. M. J. Chapman, Hebrew Idyls and Dramas, quoted in the Pall-Mall Gazette, Feb. 21, 1866....
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130840344
- ISBN 13 9781130840346
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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