Lexicographical Neighbors of Rushings
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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