Definition of Hustlings

1. hustling [n] - See also: hustling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hustlings

hussif
hussifs
hussy
husting
hustings
hustle-bustle
hustle alarm
hustle and bustle
hustled
hustlers
hustles
hustling
hustlings
huswife
huswifely
huswifery
huswifes
huswives
hut
hutch
hutch bladder diverticulum
hutched
hutches
hutching
hutchinson's melanotic freckle
hutchinson syndrome
hutchinsonite

Literary usage of Hustlings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... and others escorting him, Elie marching foremost, " with the capitulation-paper on his sword's point." Through roarings and cursings; through hustlings, ..."

2. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... of sacrificing the smallest interest of anybody else to his own; he had not a spark of envy or jealousy; he stood well aloof from all the hustlings and ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1812)
"Few spectacles, -*• indeed, can be more incongruous than that of Mr. Roscoe, engaged in the turmoils and hustlings of Brentford warfare. ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... shiftings and hustlings for the present, or indeed in essential respects the very last, readers may as well note the above main ..."

5. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"... and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly. Our guests continued running in and out and about the vessel, ..."

6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... then swift, by extra post, to Breslau and to civilised (partially civilised) accommodation, for a little rest after these hustlings and tossings. ..."

7. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... shiftings and hustlings for the present, or indeed in essential respects the very last, readers may as well note the above main points in it. ..."

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