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Flurries

Flurry \Flur"ry\, n.; pl. Flurries. [Prov. E. flur to ruffle.]

  1. A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

  2. A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.

    Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind.
    --Longfellow.

  3. Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.

    The racket and flurry of London.
    --Blakw. Mag.

  4. The violent spasms of a dying whale.

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flurries

n. (plural of flurry English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: flurry)

Usage examples of "flurries".

There were several flurries as two fire lizards vied forthe same choice morsel.

Every one was set on a raised hillock, and beside these lay sluices and pools, some of which flared with the afternoon's milky brightness whilst others cast pools of shadow like flurries of smoke.

The prim guild charities with their stalls and leaflets had long hitched their skirts and gone back to Northcentral, the soapbox prophets had returned to their chapels, and even the speakers on the Rights of Mankind had vanished in flurries of leaflets, fights and accusations.

As the crowds teemed in from all parts of London, there were the first flurries of disappointment.

In the grey half-light, under leaden, lowering clouds, she slid across the anchorage like an insubstantial ghost, more often than not half-hidden from view under sudden, heavy flurries of snow.

Seconds later only, it seemed, he was at the front end of the second carriage and it was then as he swung his legs out on to the coupling that he saw it: the wavering dipping beams of headlights, vanishing and reappearing through swirling flurries of snow, on a road that paralleled the railway track not twenty yards away.

In die cab itself, through the flurries of snow, he caught a glimpse of the engineer, and of his fireman turning and stooping as he shovelled coal from the tender into the firebox.

The darkness was as nearly absolute as it ever becomes on the ice cap, the wind was lifting again, and thin flurries of snow came gusting through the night.

She could see her past uncertainties, her flurries of worry, her bouts with envy and guilt, as the struggles of a creature growing from one form to another.

Not as rain will, in steady unbroken sheets, but like flurries of snow, here, above, there, whipped to one side suddenly.

The gray skies, cold winds, brief snow flurries, the prospect of hunger in winter.

His dark curling hair held a frosting of snow from the flurries that appeared suddenly over the Sierra Nevada along the Cific Ocean.

The snow flurries increased, burning cold into his face except where the scar tissue had robbed him of sensation.