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  • verb Present participle of hurray.

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Examples

  • But he disguised these feelings under an enormous bellowing and hurraying.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • I had the “Vengeur” going down, and all the crew hurraying like madmen.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • The hurraying brought out the old Doctor himself, who put his hand up to his spectacles and started when he saw the old pupil.

    Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

  • Captain, hurraying and rushing down the hill waving his sword, received a shot and fell dead.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Everyone seems to be hurraying about this new feature of google, but just remember guys, what gmail is doing now is to forward all outgoing emails where you have the FROM address as the non gmail address to your domains SMTP servers and most of you might not have an SMTP server that allows you to relay off it.

    Gmail Kisses “On Behalf Of” Goodbye, Enables Support For Third-Party Outbound Servers Jason Kincaid 2005

  • And it was at this declivity when at evening the whole English line received the order to advance, as the enemy fell back after his last charge, that the Captain, hurraying and rushing down the hill waving his sword, received a shot and fell dead.

    XXXV. Widow and Mother 1917

  • Or I would see him on some parterre of a platform beside my aunt's hurraying hat, amidst titles and costumes, "holding his end up," as he would say, subscribing heavily to obvious charities, even at times making brief convulsive speeches in some good cause before the most exalted audiences.

    Tono Bungay 1906

  • Jumping out of my chair, dancing round, whooping and hurraying "like a daft thing," as she afterwards described my movements.

    The Lady of the Basement Flat George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • I had the _Vengeur_ going down, and all the crew hurraying like madmen.

    English Satires Various 1885

  • For Mr. STEVENSON can write no stories worth hurraying at,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 Various 1876

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