Hurlyburly definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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And from the window, looking on a scene enveloped in more than the darkness of the night, you saw in the pulsations of the lightning, before "the speedy gleams the darkness swallowed," the tossing trees and the flying foam and eddies on the lake In the midst of the hurlyburly, a loud and long knocking came at the hall-door of Mardykes.

—J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3

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The effect of the Angels' voices in the hurlyburly is exceedingly beautiful, and the accompaniments, particularly those of the fire-scene, are very vivid. — The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
And from the window, looking on a scene enveloped in more than the darkness of the night, you saw in the pulsations of the lightning, before "the speedy gleams the darkness swallowed," the tossing trees and the flying foam and eddies on the lake In the midst of the hurlyburly, a loud and long knocking came at the hall-door of Mardykes. — J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3
_2 W. _ When the hurlyburly 's done, — Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
How, in such a hurlyburly of the elements, should the chosen seed survive? — The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
They fretted awhile in the hurlyburly of other love-mad couples and wondered what to do. — We Can't Have Everything