They passed under the elevated structure, cutting through a hurrying throng of people.

Milton avoids the loathsome details, and takes refuge in indistinct but solemn and tremendous imageryDespair hurrying from couch to couch to mock the wretches with his attendance, Death shaking his dart over them, but, in spite of supplications, delaying to strike.

The town looks wretched; even where the fighting is not going on, the houses are closed and the streets deserted, except here and there: a lonely passenger hurrying along, or a wretched prisoner marching between four soldiers.

The noisy hurrying of hard shoes upon a bare wooden floor increased the whirring in my ears.

He could barely see her then, and somehow she looked very pathetic hurrying along in the cold, dim light of dawn.

In the tense stillness they could hear only the sad murmur of the river gliding under the darkness andnow and thenthe sudden hurrying of footsteps in the chamber overhead where the wounded man lay.

It seemed at first like the swift hurrying by of some viewless courier of the air, the vague alarm of some invisible flying herald, or like the inarticulate cry that precedes a storm.

He watched the rush and outset of the turbid current hurrying to meet the South Fork, and to eventually lose itself in the yellow Sacramento.

After the slow years of self-inflicted exile; after the wavering weeks and months of repentance, doubt, and changing resolution, life had suddenly become breathlessa hurrying rush down some Avernian descent, towards crashing pain and tumult.

And yet how true is the old maxim that "it is always the unexpected which happens!" On the third morning after we had entered the fort Sergeant Corney and I were on duty as sharpshooters, and, before we had been upon the walls many moments, I called his attention to what seemed like an unusual hurrying to and fro on the part of the enemy.