Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurra
Literary usage of Hurra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"hurra ! hurra ! hurra ! Down with it ! down with it ! down with it ! hurra! hurra!
hurra! ... hurra! To you ! to you ! to you ! hurra ! hurra ! hurra ! ..."
2. The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices by Cornelius Conway Felton (1845)
"HORRA ! hurra ! hurra ! hurra ! We 're off unto America ! What shall we take to
our new land ? All sorts of things from every hand ! ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"Hip, hip, hurra—hurra, hurra ! Hark !—how the echoes ring ! Tickler. ... Hip,
hip, hurra, hurra ! Tickler. Some basely forgot, or rather deserted him, ..."
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