Definition of Rushings

1. rushing [n] - See also: rushing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rushings

rushed behinds
rushedly
rushee
rushees
rushen
rusher
rushers
rushes
rushest
rusheth
rushier
rushiest
rushiness
rushing
rushingly
rushings (current term)
rushlight
rushlights
rushlike
rushy
rusine
rusk
rusks
rusma
rusmas
russel
russell's viper
russellite
russels
russet

Literary usage of Rushings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1908)
"... the rushings of mighty tempests over field and forest, the great floods and rushings of rivers, the calms and storms on the high seas, the puny efforts ..."

2. Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship: And the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, Archibald MacMechan (1901)
"... the living rock amid all rushings-down1 whatsoever; — the one fixed point in modern revolutionary history, otherwise as if bottomless and shoreless. ..."

3. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (1909)
"be reaching towards him: Also he heard doleful voices, and rushings to and fro, so that sometimes he thought he should be torn in pieces, or trodden down ..."

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