Live by one's wits

Usage examples of hustle.

With that the lobster brushed by them and hustled off the way they had come, feelers atwitch with anticipation.

Jason gave Kira the credit before Gram hustled their attendees back toward the house, all of them highly entertained, ready for the dessert buffet, a visit to the aviary, and dancing.

They were all standing outside the bathroom again, and Bagman and Fudge started hustling the Ministers away.

The bedel was there, as was Sally, but the two young children had been hustled from the room.

They hustled the biped down a side corridor, away from the glances of curious pass-ersby.

She hustled him out of his pile of blankets and set him to sweeping floors, helping in the laundries, and cleaning the various ingenious instruments of lighting that had accumulated in this place over the yearsbrass candlesticks and chamber-sticks, candle-snuffers, wax-jacks, bougie boxes, wick-trimmers, douters, candle-boxes, and lamps.

These the crew chief hustled off the bird and down the ramp as quickly as decorum and international chumship allowed.

In the dark of night, the coughers were led from their hideout two at a time, and hustled to the makeshift sauna to spend an hour baking.

Chente was relieved of his hardware and he and Martha were hustled into an olive-drab car that performed much more efficiently than the buffer Mayor Flaggon drove.

He took Flyte by the arm and hustled him through a door behind the makeshift platform on which the microphones stood.

I was hustling days, playing different gigs nights, Maureen and I were still together, life was fine.

Several large caravans of merchants, bringing their wares from Baghdad and Cairo, were passing into the city at the time they arrived, and he and Hakeem fell in beside the hustle of camels flowing into the city.

Heather soaked in the bath while Hatti hustled George and Luke up the stairs and into the room next door with the trunks and began unpacking them, putting the clothes away in the master bedroom.

They hustled him into a waiting car and headed to the airstrip at Nellis Air Force Base, where a small black helicopter waited to whisk him back to the northwest.

Never gave the enraptured air - There was a rustling, seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farm-yard when the barley is scattering, Out came the children running.