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He recalled harried efforts to bury corpses found on the roadside even as he and his neighbors tried to organize their families to flee the area.

Kathy Kelly: Now We See You, Now We Don't 2009

He recalled harried efforts to bury corpses found on the roadside even as he and his neighbors tried to organize their families to flee the area.

CounterPunch 2009

It never made sense to me theologically or morally--it anthropomorphizes God into a kind of harried Big Chief in the sky whose decision making processes are influenced by the squeaky wheels.

E-Mails to God and Glenn Beck James F. McGrath 2010

When he explained to The Believer magazine that the travel demands were too much, the interviewer asked, "So the post has an august reputation, but to actually be sitting in the office is a kind of harried, exhausting and distracting experience?"

The Reluctant Poet Laureate 2009

They were kind of harried, but while I was running around, up and down the stairs at least 500 times over the course of the day, I was never really stressed.

It takes a village tannaz 2006

They were kind of harried, but while I was running around, up and down the stairs at least 500 times over the course of the day, I was never really stressed.

Archive 2006-09-01 tannaz 2006

FRANCIS: Do you find that people are kind of harried here, they're really -- they're out of emotional gas at this point to deal with it?

CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2001 2001

And as he could not make them conform he "harried" them so that many were glad to leave the land to escape tyranny.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

I had been so "harried" of late, that I felt a certain relief in being settled _somewhere_.

Border and Bastille 1851

Another American priest who frequently visits the Vatican described the pope as "harried," which is an unsettling adjective, given that it is so rarely applied to Benedict, an academic by profession and disposition who always acts very deliberately and is rarely knocked off his game by daily events and pressures.

AOL News Collection:All top stories collection 2010