Lexicographical Neighbors of Backrush
Literary usage of Backrush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnology (1992)
"... A diver standing on the shore and looking seaward would observe and note: (1)
Surf zone; (2) limit of uprush; (3) uprush; (4) backrush; (5) beach face; ..."
2. A History of the Literature of Ancient Israel from the Earliest Times to 135 by Henry Thatcher Fowler (1912)
"The ruler selected, Jehoiakim, was distinctly hostile to the spirit and policy
of his father; his reign was marked by the backrush of all the heathen ..."
3. A History of the Peninsular War by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1903)
"It was borne away by the backrush of the 'rest, and scattering over the hillsides
the whole body fled westward and northward, some towards Peraleda de ..."
4. High School Geography, Physical, Economic and Regional by Charles Redway Wilmarth Dryer (1912)
"The fragments are rolled over, ground up, and carried away by the undertow, or
backrush of water along the bottom. The result of this is a platform or ..."
5. Body and Will: Being an Essay Concerning Will in Its Metaphysical by Henry Maudsley (1884)
"... the channels of muscular sense—the backrush, as it were, of their formal
sensibilities whereby they become particular motor intuitions —must needs be a ..."
6. High School Geography: Physical, Economic and Regional ; The Geography of by Charles Redway Dryer (1912)
"The fragments are rolled over, ground up, and carried away by the undertow, or
backrush of water along the bottom. The result of this is a platform or ..."
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