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    Usa "bustle about" in una frase

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    bustle about


    1. The local people bustle about, the women – as women anywhere, obviously shopping while herding small children and the men either busily rushing around or lounging staring into space – I watch as a woman with two children makes desperate attempts to stop the elder of the two under her care from pinching some fruit from a stall … the little devil waits until she is occupied in conversation with the stall owner before sneakily nicking an apple and ramming it into his pocket


    2. Crowds of people – mostly women, I notice – bustle about with baskets, their raucous ripostes to the chatter of the costers much as I have seen in some of the street markets of London


    3. But "no, she would go down; she could bear it very well, and the bustle about her would be less


    4. He wanted to bustle about, to run away from it


    5. There seemed to be just as air of rush and bustle about the resurrecting town which had made her blood sing when many vehicles wallowing in the mud holes as there had been then, except that there were no Confederate ambulances, and just as many horses and mules tethered to jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, hitching racks in front of the wooden awnings of the stores


    6. Norris felt herself defrauded of an office on which she had always depended, whether his arrival or his death were to be the thing unfolded; and was now trying to be in a bustle without having anything to bustle about, and labouring to be important where nothing was wanted but tranquillity and silence


    7. And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars


    8. All this bustle about a fallen girl, and the presence there in the Senate of her famous counsel and Nekhludoff himself, was to him simply disgusting


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