What is "abustle"

Usage examples of "abustle".

Dick drove her into the city in almost unbroken silence and left her at the great doors of the Grantham, abustle with a dozen lackeys in purple livery.

I saw the whole driveway abustle with small boys and their parents and their trunks and their tuck-boxes, and a man I took to be the Headmaster was swimming around among them shaking everybody by the hand.

People, though the Commacht lodges and, to a lesser extent, those of all their neighbors, were abustle as the time approached.

It gave him a very strange sensation, for he had never been in a Tower that was not abustle with human thought.

Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.

She knew that as she stood with the closing door at her back, facing the brightly lit hospital corridor, abustle now with flower-laden visitors with apprehensive eyes and determined, painted-on smiles.

Moonlit Eyes Station was abustle with people, many of them in uniform.

The household was abustle, and Matt had informed her that she had somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour to get breakfast prepared and the boys off to school.

Parade Square seemed abustle now, whereas it usually seemed empty to me.

They had ridden to the gate of the North Road now, and found it abustle with early morning traffic.

Passing through the various unit camps, they noted them all to be abustle, but this was not in any way remarkable, for drills and training marches, practice alarms and parades were commonplace occurrences in the permanent garrison of the army of the Consolidated Thoheekseeahnee.