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Definition of Hurrahs
1. hurrah [v] - See also: hurrah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurrahs
Literary usage of Hurrahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland: Being a Series of by Norah, McDougall, Margaret Dixon, 1826-1898, Margaret Dixon McDougall (1882)
"Oh, the cheering there was ; the endeavors to get near enough to shake him by
the hand ; the surging to and fro of the crowd, the half-crying hurrahs of the ..."
2. New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes by Isaac Farwell Holton (1857)
"Partial Hospitality.—Impediment to Church-going.—Noonday-ball.—The Priest's
Partner.—"utility of hurrahs.—Dinner.—Duck-pulling.—Beheading Cocks.—A Spring. ..."
3. The Kentish Garland by Julia Henrietta Louisa De Vaynes, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1881)
"Truth, Honor, Virtue claim our hearts, hurrahs shall loud resound. ... Tis Knatchbull
now who claims our hearts, Let loud hurrahs resound. ..."
4. Flags of the World by Byron McCandless, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1917)
"Under Austrian naval usage the Emperor is saluted by twenty-one guns followed by
fifteen hurrahs. A minister of state or field marshal gets nineteen guns ..."
5. History of the First by John Mead Gould, Leonard G. Jordan (1871)
"Then marching on again, we passed through State street amid general hurrahs for
the regiment, and a sort of side hurrahs for each company as it passed, ..."
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