The houses were filled with dust and litter, and this could not be accounted for solely by the bustle and hurry of picking out the things worth carrying away prior to the hurried evacuation of the place.
One day in his walks Frank entered Covent Garden and stood looking on at the bustle and flow of business, for it happened to be market day.
Deal is one of the quietest and most dreary places on the coast of England, and Frank was perfectly astounded at the crowd and bustle which filled the street, when he issued from the railway approach, at the foot of London Bridge.
The extra bustle and push worried rather than pleased him.
On getting out of the train he felt strange and lonely amid the bustle and confusion which was going on on the platform.
The lamps were now alight and the brightness and bustleof the scene greatly interested him.
He loitered round until he heard the moving of chairs and the bustle incident to the leave-taking of guests.
But the hurry and bustle was an advantage; he had no time to feel the strangeness of his position; and men soon get accustomed to honor.
A hush had fallen upon the never-ending bustle of the town; and the air was full of a gray, uncanny afterglow which seemed to come up out of the water, for the sky was grown quite dark.
There were heads of people moving on the porch and in the court, and the yard was all a-bustle and to-do.
Amid the bustle which now ensued, I caught sight of Mr. Deane's face peering from an open doorway.
The bustle of the cortege arriving was but a moment's work.
The 28th of November was the day fixed for this grand display, and all was bustle and preparation for the event.
While he spoke, the heavy tramp of men marching announced the approach of fresh troops; and by the bustle and noise within the farmhouse it was clear the preparations for its defence were making with all the activity the exigency demanded.
Amid the bustle of the departing train, she was piteously aware of Farrell, and just before they started, she leant out to give him her hand.
There was a bustle of hasty preparations, but they were still standing in the hall when there came the sound of flying wheels on the drive and the uneven hoofbeats of an uncertain old horse urged to utmost speed.
He was not used to such a quiet house, for their own home was a cozy, shabby dwelling, full of the stir and bustle and laughter of happy living.
Ting now hoisted the signal to clear for action, and a scene of bustle and orderly confusion at once ensued.
In the midst of all this activity and bustle there sat one useless and silent, but exceedingly grave and uncommonly attentive spectator, namely, Jacko the monkey.
The usual scene ofbustle and excitement immediately ensued.
In addition to all these elements of bustle and disturbance, San Bartolommeo swarmed with the traffic and rang with the bargains of the Rialto market.
As soon as all this bustle was disposed of, her guest met her eye again with a frank, bright smile.
The cutter did not arrive till the evening of the second day, and the despatches were not delivered to the admiral till the third morning, when all was bustle and preparation.
During the whole period I saw nothing of Augustus; but this occasioned me little uneasiness, as I knew the brig was expected to put to sea every hour, and in the bustle he would not easily find opportunities of coming down to me.
Coasting vessels, in the frequent hurry and bustle attendant upon taking in or discharging cargo, are the most liable to mishap from the want of a proper attention to stowage.
Bustle and activity seemed all at once to pervade the castle, and the merriment hitherto stifled and repressed broke forth with renewed violence.
Mary put ‘Black Agnes’ into a gallop, and the cavalcade were soon engaged in all the bustle of embarkation at the waterside.
He glanced anxiously now and then at the timepiece, for men of his stamp have scant leisure to spare, and something like a smile overspread his features as he detected a bustle in the ante-room which indicated an arrival.
The next morning, a few hours after sunrise, there was a bustle in front of my cave; a maid, evidently belonging to a noble house, was calling me.
But in those spring days of 1492 there was a great stir and bustle of preparation in Palos.
At sunrise on the 25th the fleet weighed anchor, with all the circumstance and bustle and apparent confusion that accompanies the business of sailing-ships getting under weigh.
Smart carriages with well-dressed ladies drove rapidly past, the shops were cunningly arranged with tempting wares, and all this bustle and traffic was restored in little over a week.
The sheriff and Mr. Campertown had evidently been unable to sleep, and must have been trying to lay some new plan of campaign at the time the bustle at the door announced the arrival of the boys.
I'd advise you to go to the city and take a few lessons from the clerks at Swan & Edgar's; they will tell you that in society a bustle is a tournure.
I do--in a pink muslin, with as much ribbon hanging over your bustle as would make a decent gown.
It seems to me that after the Moscow bustle my impressions are finding their place, the necessary thoughts are coming forth.
The causes are: Ill health, as well as the bustle of city life (although now for about three days I have been well).
There is much bustle here and it takes up much time.
No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work time Greet the unseen with a cheer!
A bustle was heard, and he beheld the horseman of his earlier dream again led along a captive.
The quiet was enhanced by the busy motion below, the bustle of little animal life, the skimming of the water-insects, the tender rustling of the leaves, and the gentle murmuring of the stream itself.
Midnight was approaching when Herrera reached the bivouac, which had now assumed a character of repose very different from the bustle reigning there when he had left it.
All at once I heard a bustle and a commotion and the sound of someone running towards us.
In their room, however, all is bustle and confusion, for the doctors are about to make an autopsy on the corpse.
There was bustle and movement even at that early hour, for another train of wounded had just arrived.
