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  • adverb In a hurrying manner.

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  • adverb In a hurrying manner.

Etymologies

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hurrying +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Doors clapt to — going out of one apartment, hurryingly, as I may say, into another.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Which I ate hurryingly, fearing a ventral misgiving.

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • And then, again with a rich deep bay -- a note of reassurance for the horseman, and of doom for a fugitive, if such an one could have heard it -- Jan was off again on the trail, closely, but by no means hurryingly, followed by the captain and Dick.

    Jan A Dog and a Romance 1912

  • 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.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • Which hurryingly they gain’d, and enter’d straight.

    Endymion 1884

  • 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.

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • Her majesty rose directly, and pushing away the harp, hurryingly said:

    The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813

  • Which hurryingly they gain'd, and enter'd straight.

    Endymion A Poetic Romance John Keats 1808

  • -- Doors clapt to -- going out of one apartment, hurryingly, as I may say, into another.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • After dinner, we went to see a turtle hatching conservatory, to see turtles coming up from the beach to hatch their eggs and bury them in the sands. it was quite a sight, but still a little bit touristy, with us and all the other tourists watching with our torches & trying to take pictures with the poor turtle, hurryingly covering her eggs with sands and trying to find way back to water.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

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