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Flurry

noun

(pl. flurries)

A rapid active commotion. Synonyms: ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir.

A light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that). Synonym: snow flurry. "There was a flurry of chicken feathers"

verb

(past & past part. flurried; pres. part. flurrying)

Move in an agitated or confused manner.

Cause to feel embarrassment. Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off.

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"Flurry" Quotes from Famous Books

... thousand eight hundred"—the dip-dial reads ere we find the easterly drift, heralded by a flurry of snow at the thousand-fathom level. Captain Purnall rings up the engines and keys down the governor on the switch before him. There is no sense in urging machinery when AEolus himself gives you good knots for nothing. We are away in earnest now—our nose notched home on our ...

— With The Night Mail - A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the - comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) • Rudyard Kipling

... occasion, when we were coming away from a snowy experience in the Uinkaret Mountains, we were enveloped in a severe flurry one morning soon after starting. When we had gone about a mile and a half, the whole world seemed to terminate. The air was dense with the fast-falling, snowflakes, and all beyond a certain line was ...

— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

... she can do pure comedy, that she can be frankly, deliciously, gay. There is one of her songs in which she laughs, chuckles, and trills a rapid flurry of broken words and phrases, with the sudden, spontaneous, irresponsible mirth of a bird. But where she is most herself is in a manner of tragic comedy which has never been seen on the music-hall stage from the beginning. It is the profoundly sad and essentially serious comedy which ...

— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons

... Mrs. Hobart had her theory, all ready for a fire. Just exactly what she should do, first and next, and straight through, in case of such a thing. She had recited it over to herself and her family till it was so learned by heart that she believed no flurry of the moment would put it wholly ...

— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... was a flurry of activity and his office had become a thoroughfare, Mike the Angel retired to his bedroom to think. He took with him the microcryotron stack he had picked up at Old Harry's the ...

— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

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