rushing

Example Sentences

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Instead there are endless writhings and rushings about, done with a deal of skill, but destructive of the last remnants of Ibsen.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel

The ship seemed to be full only of yellings, rushings to-and-fro of feet, wild hammerings upon timber, solid and hollow: and these pell-mell noises made the darkness, if not darker, at least more terribly confusing.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

But while they knelt, from within the wall of the Tower enclosure came a sudden tumult, rushings to and fro, and shouts and cries of “Jesu, save us!”

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah

Sometimes he wanders so far that his work tends to lose its meaning, and his rushings to and fro create fearful eddies round different centres—eddies of self-interest, of pride of power.

From Sadhana : the realisation of life by Tagore, Rabindranath

Small ties and little rushings of the mind, briefs and magazine articles, and their like, will clog my wheels day after day and year after year.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir