Meanings of hustling about in English

The Hermit of the Hudson was hustling about his cave with unusual animation.

Everywhere the birds were chirping and hustling about their morning duties.

Phil was hustling about in search of an engine crew from the other road.

And Jolly Roger was hustling about, filling a shoulder-pack in the last light of the day.

From what I have seen since I came aboard, I guess you were hustling about that time?

Then what's all this hustling about?

She was hustling about already, good primitive housewife that she was, making the stone-plates rattle on the mud table.

So down into the "scrub" I went and found the old woman hustling about from washpot to pump.

Through the flimsy partitions they heard her mounting the uncarpeted stairs, hustling about upon an uncarpeted floor above, and presently descending.

They made me tired with their hustling about things that didn't matter; I wanted the woods and the quiet the river hardly breaks.

While those atoms are hustling about, lengthening the wire and getting a better grip on one another, they grow warm with the exercise.