It made us think of the poet John Clare, who said that, "after the hustling world is broken off", there "is a charm in solitude that cheers", but also that the world he thought was "hustling" in 1837 was much, much more "hustling" now.
They were driven to the Libyan beach where they found 600 people hustling for space on a boat built for less than half that number.
It has come to seem, for many people, a sort of laboratory in which a rawer, less-cohesive Britain is emerging; a crowded, hustling place of vaulting earnings for the rich and of widening income disparities, which drains talent and wealth from the rest of the country.Despite these fears, those who cheer as the City falters, will be wrong.
Hidden behind the main roads lined with cheap shops, the district is studded with shanty towns of flimsy huts of wood and corrugated iron, rutted mud streets and hustling youths.Argentina's economy is struggling to pull out of a deep slump.
Earlier books have described what Chaucer's London looked like; Mr Strohm makes it a place where people are shouting, hustling, grabbing you by the coat, asking "What's new?", while almost continually behind them carts thunder, horses clatter, and bells ring, peal, carillon, clang and toll.
TOYOTA may be hustling to overtake General Motors as the world's largest carmaker, but for the past 20 years the smartest part of the road has belonged to a remarkable German quartet of engineering masters.
First hustling for pool shots with Mexicans in Amarillo, then driving out along the dust road with friends to look for poker games.
However, he never managed to gulp down more than a few pieces of the reward before the dominant raven, Munin, was hustling him on his way.
But it is a bit startling to a busy, hustling American".
He publicly called one pitcher "a fat pussy toad" for not hustling during a game.
On Christmas Day 1956 his house had been dynamited under him, his mattress blown to pieces smaller than his fists, but under the Lord's everlasting arm he got no more than a bump on the head, and was hustling on the buses the next day.
