But as usual, the victorious onrush at Killiecrankie did not carry the tartans far.
No wonder then that the fierce onrush of those who were inflamed by Mahomed's fighting creed met with no resistance, and Islam is now the faith of those lands of ruin and golden sand.
But every day de Castlenau was consolidating his defence of Verdun, in face of tremendous odds; and every day the ferocity of the German onrush waned.
The Germans had checked the onrushby the weight of their artillery.
There was time only to strike and, without a word, Gawaine met theonrush of the dragon with a full swing.
He ought to be a man who wears his Corona on his sleeve, for there is no moment of the day or night in which he is safe from the onrush of ideas.
But these same bits of ribbon and the red and green ones of the Croix de Guerre and the yellow and green of the Medaille Militaire were later to save France from the onrush of the Germans.
Not for one instant would he admit the possibility of defeat, and under his strong hand the huddled lines were quickly reformed, the onrush of the Confederates was gradually checked and a desperate conflict begun for every inch of ground.
Even then he could not stop the onrush of the Union troops, which, under Sheridan, circled his right on April 1st and drove back his men in the fierce engagement known as the battle of Five Forks.
Fully a thousand savages fell before the onrush of the men in fringed buckskin, while but fifteen of the American riflemen were killed.
The men who had been resting on their arms had, in a moment, seized their muskets, had formed in a line facing the enemy, and met the onrush of the savages with a volley of lead.
As he ceased speaking, the gallant leader propped himself up in his rifle pit, placed his rifle and revolver before him, and calmly waited for the onrush of the followers of Roman Nose.
However, foot by foot, they were obliged to give way before the impetuous onrush of the Americans.
However, in spite of heroic resistance and heavy sacrifices, the German onrush bore down the Allies by sheer weight of numbers.
We had seen the typhus, and had dodged the dreaded louse who carries the infection, we had seen the typhus dwindle and die with the onrush of summer.
The Ngai-Tahu then began to fall back, firing the while; but their musketry failed to check the onrush of Te Rauparaha's veterans, who were now thoroughly seasoned to the rattle of bullets and the smell of powder.
They were quickly borne down before the onrush of the assailants, whose shouts of triumph, joined with the terrified cries of the fugitives, filled the morning air.
It was not at all real, this onrush of bird and blossom revealed by the temporary erasing of the driven lines of gray rain.
Swept aside by the onrush of events, feeling herself and her plans suddenly become futile, she decided to cease all efforts and countermand all orders.
Similarly, the past two centuries, and especially the past seventy-five years, have witnessed a marvellous onrush in man's intellectual apprehension of the universe and mastery over the latent energies of matter.
If the Greeks had hit upon the idea of movable types--and it is little to the credit of the Invisible King that they did not--the onrush of barbarism and Byzantinism would not have been half so disastrous.
The generation that saw the liberalism on which it had been reared stricken to the ground by the annihilating onrush of war still hoped that, with the halting approach of peace, liberalism might raise its head again.
Thanks to the boys' defense of the stairway, and the cool-headed commander's prompt action in quelling the onrush of the stokers, the boys found that there was plenty of room in the two boats that still remained to be lowered.
A mighty onrush of the fugitives immediately followed, and Herc shared Ned's fate.
Ned thought that the captain, whom he had last seen quelling the onrush of the crazed stokers, glanced at him with a flash of recognition.
He gently halted their onrush and waved them back to their seats.
The terrible despair at the onrush of her starving children when she cried out, "O that I should only bury you all in one day!
Her very pencil trembled with the eager onrush of words.
Indeed it was just there, in the blood-drenched marshes of the Yser, that for the second time, and finally, the onrush of the barbarians was broken.
They could not check the onrush of the sea, nor the fury of the ocean-flood, but it destroyed the multitude in shrieking terror.
Thou needest not to dread the onrush of thy foes, or war of the Northmen, but the blood-stained birds of prey are resting on the mountain slopes, gorged with the slain of their armies.
They had not achieved the success they hoped for in the first onrush and their losses had been far heavier than they anticipated.
In the course of the first onrush they broke through all the British outpost trenches and south of Cambrai penetrated some battle positions.
There was ever the danger of an onrushby the redskins.
All sprang to their horses, and were soon prepared to meet the onrush of the red men.
But the Italians held grimly on; they turned at bay on the Piave and in the mountains, and checked the onrush of Austrians and Germans.
The 27th had borne the brunt of the first German onrush and suffered proportionately.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onrush" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
