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Example sentences for "gusher"

Lexicographically close words:
gurt; guru; gurus; gush; gushed; gushes; gushing; gushings; guslar; gusset
  1. Mr. Gusher shook his head disapprovingly, and shrugged his shoulders.

  2. It will be so very appropriate, my daughter, for you and Mr. Gusher to lead off.

  3. Mattie's beauty was quite up to the picture Mr. Gusher had drawn of it in his imagination.

  4. You have heard me speak of Mr. Gusher so often.

  5. Detecting the small vein of eccentricity in the little woman's character, Mr. Gusher was evidently inclined to encourage it, hoping that it would still further develop her generosity.

  6. Mr. Gusher is such a polished gentleman, and so very sensitive.

  7. Mr. Gusher was indeed quite embarrassed at the number of compliments Mrs. Chapman seemed inclined to bestow on him.

  8. Mr. Gusher looked at the little woman with an air of surprise and astonishment.

  9. Had Mr. Gusher gone back to New York in the belief that he had made an impression on the affections of that pretty, simple-hearted country girl, Mattie Chapman, what a happy man he would have been.

  10. The storm has prevented Gusher from getting here to-night.

  11. When dinner was over Mr. Gusher escorted Mattie back into the parlor.

  12. Here Mr. Gusher introduced Topman, his partner, and gave him a short account of the business she was on.

  13. I know it's Guff," the Man would say after the Gusher had passed on, "but my Stars!

  14. The Gusher should have been in the Diplomatic Service.

  15. When the Gusher would arise at the Dinner Table to blow Bubbles and distribute Candy, the Grouch would slide down in his Chair until he was resting on his Shoulder Blades.

  16. The Wife of the Married Man liked the Gusher and tolerated the Grouch.

  17. Of these two Friends, one was a Gusher and the other a Grouch.

  18. He knew that the Gusher told every Woman the same thing, playing no Favorites.

  19. The Gusher listened with Tears in his Eyes.

  20. Every time the Gusher came into the Flat, he held her Hand a little longer than necessary and looked into her Hazel Eyes and told her she was becoming Younger and more Charming every Day.

  21. The Gusher was eternally bubbling over with Compliments and Kind Wishes.

  22. Got to look for an engineer for the night tower," Hart explained as he drew up in front of the Gusher Saloon.

  23. Men willing to work till the gusher is under control, please meet Bob Hart in front of the fire-house.

  24. Down, so as to reach Malapi and get into the Gusher before word came of the hold-up," guessed Crawford.

  25. A photographer faked a gusher for him and they sent it out on the circulars.

  26. It was a big strike, the biggest in the history of the district, and to control the flow of the gusher would necessitate tremendous efforts on a wholesale plan.

  27. The new gusher in the Malapi pool," answered Sanders at once, and his gaze was as steady as that of the big state-builder.

  28. For once the Gusher and the Oil Pool and other resorts held small attraction for the crowds.

  29. At the first mention of the Jackpot gusher the financier raised a prohibitive hand.

  30. Down at the Gusher I hear they laugh about that trick he played on you blowin' up the dam.

  31. For Burns and Hart had not yet gained control over the flow, though an army of men in overalls and slickers fought the gusher night and day.

  32. Except that Number Three's come in the biggest gusher ever I see.

  33. He can buy up a dry hole any old time and it'll be a gusher in a week.

  34. I would sooner take my chances on striking a twenty-thousand barrel gusher and having the whole of it to myself.

  35. Ask the man behind the Montana Gusher oil fraud--your dishonorable self.

  36. Best leave his punishment to me and that more easily proved charge of the Montana Gusher oil-stock fraud.

  37. You see, friends, the Montana Gusher Oil Fields, Inc.

  38. Mills Harford knew of the Montana Gusher swindle, as indicated by his jibe of that morning about an "oil-stock shark.

  39. These, as you may have surmised, are certificates for stock in the Montana Gusher Oil Company.

  40. I understand they have to start things with a blast of dynamite, when the gusher begins to flow.

  41. Miss Priscilla's gold mine, in the way of an oil gusher bonanza; for the whole country might get ablaze.

  42. Proudly enough, Paul sprang to the roaring gusher and gave the protected valve wheel a few quick turns.

  43. The weather had not moderated but Colonel Howell was anxious to bring the work on the gusher to a close.

  44. For days the experienced oil men made futile efforts to extinguish the gusher and to cap the shaft.

  45. If you had pulled the siren and waited for orders we might have a gusher on our hands and pieces of derrick flying in all directions.

  46. Gib got his men together and, until spring really came, they kept busy sawing hunks off that gusher and shipping them out to the States on flatcars!

  47. Miss Augusta Gusher and Miss Sophronia Vapors, which was echoed in "ohs!

  48. Miss Gusher says that her idol is broken; that she never again shall reverence a clergyman.

  49. Eva was at the chapel that morning and overheard, of the conversation between Miss Gusher and Miss Vapors, just enough to pique her curiosity and rouse her alarm.

  50. I supposed it must be my stupidity, and so I just went off to my tree and sat down to work quietly in the dark corner, and left Miss Gusher expatiating on mottoes and illuminations.

  51. Gracey performed the double ceremony with great dignity and solemnity; but the reporters, who fought for good places to see the show, and Miss Gusher and Miss Vapors, were disappointed.

  52. The chorus were loud and continuous in their acclaims, and Miss Gusher talked learnedly of lovely inscriptions in Greek and Latin, offering to illuminate some of them for the occasion.

  53. Mr. St. John said this with a radiancy of delight which Miss Gusher ascribed entirely to his approbation of her zeal; but the heavens and the earth had assumed a new aspect to him since that little talk in the corner.

  54. People would think that perhaps another gusher had started into being, or that some question of investments must be decided.

  55. The rough, mostly unpainted, wooden houses, shops, and hotels composing Lucky Star City were so near the great oil gusher which accounted for the town's existence that the front rank of frame buildings was peppered all over with a jetty spray.

  56. It wasn't I who took the gusher off your hands, anyhow, and saved you the expense of coping with it," said Carmen.

  57. If he had been thinking about it, he could have seen, dark against the pale fire of the desert sky, the source of his fortune; the great gusher throwing up its black spout of oil, like tons upon tons of coal.

  58. Then the conversation turned to Nick's ranch and the oil gusher which had given him fortune out of threatening ruin; and he described the queer little oil city which had grown up on his land.

  59. This disfigurement had come when the gusher was at its highest, and its black, blowing spume had been borne by the wind for long distances.

  60. Everyone knew that Nick Hilliard, of Lucky Star Gusher fame, had been her husband's foreman, and that the land which had made his fortune had been sold to him by her.

  61. He could hear the thick splash of the gusher that rose and fell, like the beating of a giant's heart, and from the brightly lighted town sounds of laughter and fiddling came to him.

  62. All the land there and the big gusher were his.

  63. I only ran up against him lately, since I sold my gusher to the United Oil Company.

  64. It was only when the gusher burst out by accident and took every one by surprise that your troubles were over.

  65. She ought to have had a diamond crown when the gusher came.

  66. Your father has struck oil again on his property--a genuine gusher this time.

  67. Paw Tooker will probably be a millionaire before his new gusher stops gushing, and what’s Paw’s seems to belong equally to his beloved Edina.

  68. Paw said if the gusher kept on gushin’ we’d probably be millionaires before we got through.

  69. Her voice was sullen as she said: "They've been expecting a gusher on sixteen.

  70. If this well blew in big, as it seemed bound to do, it would be a personal triumph, for not many cub drillers could boast of bringing in a gusher the first time.

  71. What was more alarming by far, in view of these blazing beacons, was the news that a huge gusher on sixteen was wild and pouring its inflammable flood out upon the surface of the water.

  72. Yes, Sir, I shouldn't be surprised any day to strike a gusher right here on my ranch!

  73. I wouldn't care if every gusher in Mexico went up in smoke!

  74. They're liable to bring in a gusher that'll send the price soaring.

  75. The old lady will be rich beyond her wildest dreams and we will have the greatest producer known since the Dos Bocas gusher went up in flames!

  76. The gusher would flow on until the pressure below lessened, and after that it would die down, and require pumps to further exhaust it.


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