Lexicographical Neighbors of Onrushes
Literary usage of Onrushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"... actual defeat upon the battlefield and new onrushes of German and Austrian
troops were still further to test the already war-tried temper of the French, ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and by Francis Whiting Halsey (1919)
"... impetuous onrushes of an army of attack. Even in the Woevre and at the St.
Mihiel wedge, in spite of apparently threatening positions, the German lines, ..."
3. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Everywhere besieged, the efforts of Germans to advance had become more like the
sorties of a beleaguered garrison than the impetuous onrushes of an army of ..."
4. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by John George Wood (1882)
"onrushes the mass of flame, climbing the hill with fearful strides, roaring like
myriads of flags ruffled in the breeze, and devouring in its progress every ..."
5. The Servian People: Their Past Glory and Their Destiny (1910)
"The Turks made fierce onrushes one after another until the ditches before the
Serb position were filled with their dead and wounded; finally, ..."
6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1847)
"The hymns are sung; The incense mount« ; The serges burn on altar and shrine ;
And now onrushes the heavenly wine Of prayer from a thousand fount«. ..."
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