In a few minutes, news of the accident spread through the neighbourhood, and mothers came rushing to the scene by scores.
The rolling and moaning of the North Sea could be heard for miles inland when the wind was lulled; for then it sounded like the rushing of a thousand waggons over a hard road with a mine beneath.
There was a bubbling sound of boiling and roasting; and all at once it seemed as if the sound were rushing through every chimney, and pots and kettles were boiling over.
Thoughts welled up from within him, like the tones from the violin, falling like pearls, rushing like the storm-wind through the forests.
They can be heard in the rushing of the storm, and their singing brings up strange thoughts in the hearers--thoughts of the old times into which we are carried back.
That was the dream of the old Oak Tree; and while he dreamt thus a mighty storm came rushing over land and sea--at the holy Christmas tide.
One morning the wings of storks were heard rushing over the roof; more than a hundred pairs of those birds had rested from their exercise during the previous night, and now they soared aloft, to travel southwards.
This time the Maid could not give warning; she was rushing into the breach, the faithful Duke at her side.
The ship hung motionless a few inches above therushing water, its port side flanking the shore.
Around them, nothing moved; only the black waters of the riverrushing onward toward some distant rendezvous with the sea.
Other guns' crews were rushing for'ard to serve the bow quick-firers, for by this time R19 was floating on a perfectly even keel and showing an abnormal amount of freeboard.
Rushing into an attic, he slammed and bolted the door, piling articles of furniture against it as an additional safeguard.
Before the boys scarcely knew it they had reached Cape Town and wererushing through the city's streets in a tram for their hotel.
This second fellow was even more lively than the first, and his rushing and jumping was something wonderful to witness.
They were hewn out by the action of the rushing water of past centuries.
To picnic by the rushing rapids, or on a bluff in full view of the falls, is a unique experience and one that will be long remembered.
Rushing into the nest, they hustled those eggs out in less than a minute, wren time.
Not long after, suddenly, crowds of the enemy came rushinground the western point of the mountain and filled the trenches and earthworks on the northern slope close by.
Communication by river was now open between Bridgeport and Chattanooga, so that supplies of provisions and stores were soon rushing to the army of the Cumberland.
Rushing water, a sensation of hot lead in the nostrils, a curious strangling and choking, with the thundering of strange noises in the ears.
The boat's head was set in quite a fresh direction, and she was run ashore a little way from the mouth of a rushing river, whose waters came foaming down through blocks of pumice and black masses of volcanic stone.
The noise was not repeated, but the peculiar hissing went on, and, as if from a great distance, there came gurglings and rushing sounds, as if from water.
Don stopped short in the faint grey light, half stunned by the echoing reverberations of the reports which rolled away like thunder, while there was a rushing noise as of people forcing their way in rapid flight through the bush.
As they passed on they listened intently for sounds of pursuit, but for awhile there were none; the fact being that at the sound of the shot the convicts believed that they were attacked, and rushing out, they made for the mountain.
Jem saw him pass through the air and disappear in the mass of greenery with a loud rushing sound, which continued for a few moments, and then all was still.
I have besought, and entreated you, by every argument, and every motive in my power; but you are yet in your sins, and rushing on toward hell.
Calm stood the man, his words rushingfrom him like flames of fire.
The crest was bare of trees, and the command arrived at the edge of the clearing with some loss, and cautiously concentrated, hesitating a moment before breaking out into the open and rushing the hill.
Dorothy, with a shriek of alarm, rushing toward him, while the dazed old man made no movement to prevent her.
He hoped to escape the Centaur by his speed, but the old ship-of-the-line had the wind and heels of him now and she came rushing down upon the frigate.
Here their loud shouts must have been heard by Billy, for the door was suddenly thrown open and a bulky figure came rushing out, eager to assist in any way possible.
But Hugh’s heart beat high with hope, for he had seen a figure swiftly rushing over the thin ice, the very rapidity of his passage preventing his breaking in before he arrived near the hole.
You remember, of course, when we found ourselves rushingaway from the earth so swiftly.
As if a train of powder laid from the outermost bound of Saint Antoine Quarter to the wine-shop door, had been suddenly fired, a fast-spreading murmur came rushing along.
Then the engineer, seeing the auto rushing down to destruction, blew shrieking whistles, as if that could help.
In a few minutes the motor girls were rushing down the muddy roads, splashing through big puddles, but they themselves were kept from the drenching downpour by the firemen's heavy coats and helmets.
But the car slid along, nearer and nearer the track, along which the train was thundering--rushing to meet the auto-to annihilate it.
The people who might exercise control cannot; and the people will not who can; and so the hours sweep on in a rushing stream of events and consequences, which every now and then flings somebody upon the rocks.
But I am rushing into the middle of things,' said Rollo, giving the old steed an intimation that he need not absolutely fall back upon walking.
The detailed character of this report is very curious.
Its canopy is carried on clusters of four shafts twisted together, at each of the angles; between them, on each side, are three coupled columns, and at the east and west ends are single shafts.
At any moment, thoserushing past might have been pushed against the death-bearing truck.
All the other travellers had dismounted, and she seemed to be rushing through the summer night alone.
Then she said with sudden haste, the colour rushing back into her cheeks, "It is the most sacred honour that was ever done me.
From here and there the heavy four-horse wagons one after another jolted in, the "horse-wranglers" rushing madly to and fro in the endeavor to keep the different saddle bands from mingling.
The stringers parted as their horses attempted to make their way gingerly across, and in an instant horses and riders and bridge timbers were floundering indiscriminately in the rushing torrent.
When I saw a crowd of blood-thirsty, unprincipled slave hunters rushing upon me armed with weapons of death, it was no use for me to undertake to fight my way through against such fearful odds.
Just at this moment there was no small stir in rushing forward; so much indeed, that I thought they were coming up to mob me.
But I see more than chasm deep, Than falling spray and rushing tide.
The country continued thickly wooded for nearly twenty miles from Strawberry, and the forest-trail was every now and then drowned out of sight by streams rushing from the snow of Shasta.
These are so arranged that they can be stretched and relaxed by little muscles; and, when thrown into vibration by the air rushing through the voice box, they produce the sounds that we call talking or singing.
He set about turning the course of Alpheus and Peneus, rivers of Whitehall, and he sent their waters rushing through the stable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rushing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
