harum

"I don't think Luke was ever what you call harum-scarum," said Mrs. Rowan.

Rachel Ray, volume 2 1863

“I don’t think Luke was ever what you call harum-scarum,” said Mrs Rowan.

Rachel Ray 1863

And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.

The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.

The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

"The pore lad's out o 'harum's rache, any way," she reflected.

A Rivermouth Romance Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

The captain at the police station didn't say he was to breng this prosecution agen us noo; he only told us he wud tak us out o 'harum's way, and didn't make no charge.'

Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative.

CHAPTER IV 2010

Besides, had not her own cousin, -- though a remote and distant one to be sure, the black sheep, the harum-scarum, the ne'er-do-well, -- had not he come down out of that weird North country with a hundred thousand in yellow dust, to say nothing of a half-ownership in the hole from which it came?

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

Once you get above chapter book level, it seems like almost all new fiction for kids is (or wants to be) thrilling, exciting, harum-scarum, suspenseful, non-stop, etc.

Archive 2009-05-01 Roger Sutton 2009

The courts affirmed this limited and narrow understanding until the New Deal, when Congress began to regulate harum-scarum and the Supreme Court inflated the clause into a general license for anything a majority happened to favor.

The Constitutional Moment 2011