bustle

Not necessarily to die, but for everything to pause, like a coma, like I could remove myself from the hustle and bustle of every day and go somewhere quiet.

Some of our busiest city centers resemble ghost towns, missing the usual bustle of passing trade.

Hildebrand, it is true, did not possess the one, but he was soon to forget his uneasiness in the bustle of the other.

Certainly, in New York, we are too vain of our bustle to realize how mannerless and motiveless it is.

There was a loud shriek from the bar, and a bustle—the prisoner had fainted.

There was of course a great deal of bustle and preparation, and all children enjoy that, I fancy.

He was away from the bustle of the city, and an atmosphere of peace almost like that of the country was about him.

Even in that fashionable section the streets already showed somewhat of the bustle of the busy to-morrow.

As he took the witness chair a bustle was heard in the room.

As the express steamed in all was life and bustle, for the down-train had arrived at the same time on the opposite side.