Fierce and swift leapt Beltane to smite againcame a shock of clashing steel, a flurry of stroke and counter-stroke, and thereafter, a hoarse shout of dismay from Roger: for Beltane stood as one dazed, staring upon his empty right hand what time the knight boomed derisive laughter through his vizor.

The truth is, la Rochefoucauld had impressed her mind with that famous saying of his: "Old age is the hell of women," and not fearing any hell, reference to her age neither alarmed her, nor caused the slightest flurry in her peaceful life.

There was a flurry among the tall hats.

He was a little flurried, as a girl is flurried at her first ball, and felt that the eye of the black-letter saints was upon him.

Although the snow was not continuous, lying merely in shallow flurries over the more open spaces, he found no difficulty in following the tracks for the first few miles.

Still, full of the fright into which this worthy person's first visit had thrown him, he received him with more flurry than politeness.

She ran on, amazed and flurried with her riches, to a shop where she purchased the books Georgie longed for, and went home exulting.

It was a sunbeam in a snarl, or a snow flurry out of a blue sky.

We, therefore, trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves; and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.

Then she went to array herself in her best clothes, as we have seen; then she came to wait upon Lady Ann, not a little flurried as to the result of that queer interview; then she whisked out of the drawing-room, as before has been shown; and, finding the chicken roasted to a turn, the napkin and tray ready spread by Hannah the neat-handed, she was bringing them up to the little patient when the frantic parent met her on the stair.

"So; let me see," said Polly, not a little flurried between this earnest scrutiny, her desire to comfort the child, her sudden success, and her very slight confidence in her own powers.

The small boys rushed in again; Flashman was wilder and more flurried than ever.

" "The colonel is out shooting, as you know, and won't be back till tea-time," said Mrs. Hewel, becoming more and more flurried under this torrent of lively scolding.

" "Then I don't see what you are so flurried about.

"Southeaster always break up in a flurry like this from the west.