Citations:hubbub

English citations of hubbub

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• 1667 — John Milton, Paradise Lost, “Book 2”:

  At length a universal hubbub wild

  Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,

  Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear

  With loudest vehemence.

• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress. Book 1, Chapter VI.

  Well, so they did: but, behold, even as they entered into the fair, all the people in the fair were moved, and the town itself as it were in a hubbub about them; and that for several reasons: for —

  Then were these two poor men brought before their examiners again, and there charged as being guilty of the late hubbub that had been in the fair.