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Flurry   /flˈəri/   Listen
noun
Flurry  n.  (pl. flurries)  
1.
A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
2.
A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind. "Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind."
3.
Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. "The racket and flurry of London."
4.
The violent spasms of a dying whale.


verb
Flurry  v. t.  (past & past part. flurried; pres. part. flurrying)  To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.





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"Flurry" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a wicked expression in its little twinkling eye, as much as to say, "There, I've done for you. I hope you may like it;" at the same time snorting and blowing louder than ever, in a way most unusual, at all events for whales, which, except when in a flurry, are ...
— Dick Onslow - Among the Redskins • W.H.G. Kingston
... servicemen. Congressional interest in the internal affairs of the armed forces was always of more than passing concern to the services. When a discussion of the new integration plan appearing in the Washington Post on 29 March caused a flurry of comment on Capitol Hill, Zuckert's assistant, Clarence H. Osthagen, met with the clerk of the House Armed Services Committee to "explain and clarify" for the Air Force. The clerk, Robert Harper, warned Osthagen that the impression in the House was that a "complete ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
... cried Leggatt, dancing round the flurry. 'They've both been saving up for each other all this time. It'll do ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... Leonardo's compositions, into whirling harmonies as of a planetary system, cannot take place in our imagination on days of restlessness and lack of concentration. Nay it may happen that arrangements of lines which would flutter and flurry us on days of quiet appreciativeness, will become in every sense "sympathetic" on days when we ourselves feel fluttered and flurried. But lack of responsiveness may be due to other causes. As there are combinations of lines which take longer to perceive ...
— The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics • Vernon Lee
... dead, with Packett ill with fever or sometings from that ship outside, and me doin' all his vork and mine as well. Don't stand round in my vay, ven you see I'm pizzy!" Young Isaac leisurely took a seat by the safe, lighted a cigarette, and looked on amusedly at the merchant's flurry. ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace


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