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How to use the word hurrying in a Sentence?

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'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Jean Cocteau

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10 years ago

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

William Wordsworth

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10 years ago

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

E. M. Forster

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10 years ago

There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages, only as much ink to accept all of us at light-speed hurrying into the Promised Land of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.

Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

You are hurrying to the sweet place, to the nonsense chasing your spirit and in the nonsense you look for answers.

Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

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13 years ago

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