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Sentences ending with rushes

There was the desert, but my limbs were like rushes. [11]
Mr Swiveller was by that time murmuring in his sleep, 'Strew then, oh strew, a bed of rushes. [12]

Sentences containing rushes two or more times

They were aglow with loud-colored silken hangings, but the stone floors had nothing but rushes on them for a carpet, and they were misfit rushes at that, being not all of one breed. [5]
Deadly courtesies were constantly exchanged--sorties by the English in the night; rushes by the enemy in the night--rushes whose purpose was to breach the walls or scale them; rushes which cost heavily, and always failed. [5]

More example sentences with the word rushes in them

Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
All about the water lay marsh-ground overgrown with leafless bushes, rushes, tall grasses, and reeds. [10]
The servants said they would follow the fashion, a fashion grown sacred through immemorial observance; they would scatter fresh rushes in all the rooms and halls, and then the evidence of the aristocratic visitation would be no longer visible. [5]
He rushes up the steps and through the hall, and into the library, where the first citizen and his seneschal are sitting. [9]
The people cheer the dog and laugh: a white-handed official, in gold lace, and without his hat, rushes out to "shoo" the dog away, but is unsuccessful; for the animal dashes between his legs, and approaches the royal and carpeted steps. [4]
It was observable that these official strongholds were now protected against rushes by bolted gates, and that these were in ward of servants wearing the House's livery. [5]
Mr. Tooting discovers that the room is occupied by the Honourable Brush Bascom; Mr. Tooting learns with indignation that certain of these guests of Mr. Bascom's are delegates pledged to Mr. Crewe, whereupon he rushes back to the bridal suite to report to his chief. [9]
These at once surrounded them and took them prisoners, as the hunter traps the game that rushes down upon him when driven by the dogs and beaters. [10]
The river is strewn with bowlders, big and little, through which the amber water rushes with an unceasing thunderous roar, now plunging down in white falls, then swirling round in dark pools. [4]
He did not stop to show that I have said any such thing, or that it legitimately follows from anything I have said, but he rushes on with his assertions. [7]
A light breeze rose, and gradually the tops of the rushes began to shine, and the leafage before, beside, and above her to glitter in the silvery light. [10]
Nowhere is the river so terrible as where it rushes, as if maddened by its narrow bondage, through the canon. [4]
At length the prow slid in among the rushes, was seized vigorously by Gaspard and Hippolyte, and the boat hauled ashore. [9]
In the middle of the lawn she stopped short once as if in doubt what to do--as a thought-reader pauses in his search for the mental scent again, ere he rushes upon the object of his search with the certainty of instinct. [11]
At the left of the chimney was the great settle, or veille, covered with baize, "flourished" with satinettes, and spread with ferns and rushes, and above it a little shelf of old china worth the ransom of a prince at least. [11]
The warlike blast of a siren horn is heard, the crowd in the lobby rushes to the doors, people up-stairs fly to the windows, and the Honourable Adam B. [9]
A narrow boat, now concealed from view by the dense growth of rushes, had brought her to the spot. [10]
But I could not die before revenging myself on the men who had worked my ruin; and therefore, cutting the manacled foot from my leg, I escaped, and hid in the rushes on the banks of the Furotas. [10]
From a little mound here in the plain issues a broad stream of limpid water and forms a large shallow pool, and then rushes furiously onward, augmented in volume. [5]
By rushes with lance and sword and rifle they were able, at last, to drive David's men back upon their old defences with loss. [11]
The cold rushes in at every crack of door and window, apparently signaled by the flame to invade the house and fill it with chilly drafts and sarcasms on what we call the temperate zone. [4]
It goes out from your toe, rushes away to Timbuctoo, and is back in your toe before you can wink. [11]
The horse dashes from the road into the open, and rushes on to the ravine. [11]
The style was fluent, impetuous, abundant, impatient, as it were, at times, and leaping the sober boundaries prescribed to it, like the torrent which rushes through the same channel when the rains have filled it. [6]
But as Octavianus delayed his answer, she continued more eagerly: "It is said that the ibex in the mountains, when in mortal peril, rushes upon the hunter and hurls him with it down the precipice. [10]
We watered the caravan at the cold stream which rushes down a trough near the end of the village, and soon afterward left the haunts of civilization behind us. [5]
The war passion burned like scattered coals of fire in the households of Revolutionary times; now it rushes all through the land like a flame over the prairie. [6]
He rushes out and shouts: "A half a dollar if you git me to the Capitol in half an hour, and a quarter extra if you do it in twenty minutes! [5]
Kit rushes in, and finds his mother clinging round his neck. [12]
Closer it comes and closer, without a pause, and followed by fresh shouting, as a flock of daws follow an owl flying across the twilight, swelling again to irrepressible triumph as the expected potentate rushes past Melissa and her neighbors. [10]
The canoe swished among the reeds and rushes, scraped on the shore, and a tall, burly figure sprang from it, and stood still, looking at the house. [11]
She felt all akin to the nature about her, and her blood was coursing as the sap rushes through a tree. [9]

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