Hurries
[hʌriz]
Definition
(n.) A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from cars into vessels.
Editor: Luke
Examples
- Scraping up a quantity of sand into a little heap, he grasps it with three of the legs on one side and hurries away with it to some little distance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am quite glad you are at home; for these hurries and forebodings by which I have been surrounded all day long, have made me nervous without reason. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Happily this change does not leave me stranded; it but hurries into premature execution designs long formed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She hurries to him, and they go on together, walking up and down, walking up and down, until he is composed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn hurries to the landing and calls, Miss Flite! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What do you mean by 'unsettled hurries,' for instance? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our progenitors have been men like these? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She rises up, hurries to and fro, flings herself down again, and rocks and moans. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The wind cannot rest; it hurries sobbing over hills of sullen outline, colourless with twilight and mist. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Luke