As he lay in the pale light, close to the water, a canoe shot out from the rushy island and landed some distance from the body.
From the rushy island came a spurt of flame, a sharp detonating report.
The call was repeated, seeming to come from a little, rushy island, a stone's throw from shore.
The rushy grass met them with a swish as they bounded over it like roebucks, so fast that our few score of muskets made no impression on them until they were climbing up the steep brae that led to our walls.
Ridges of sandstone and conglomerate approached the river in several places, and at their base were seen some fine reedy and rushy lagoons, teeming with water-fowl.
As I had not discovered a more convenient spot for killing another bullock, I decided upon stopping at the rushy lagoon, until we had provided ourselves with a fresh stock of dried beef.
But in the height of the storm her poor substitute for an anchor lets go its defective hold on the rushy bottom and drags, and the little vessel backs, backs, into the willows.
But its depths, the marshes far beyond sight behind them, and the little, hidden, rushy lakes, were alive with game.
On Saturday afternoon, all his weekly labors being scrupulously finished, Ishmael walked over to Rushy Shore Beacon, as Mr. Middleton's house was called.
There he delighted Hannah with the news that her former friend and patron, Mrs. Middleton, was soon expected at Rushy Shore.
The first of September, the time for opening the Rushy Shore school, had come, and the youth was still unable to walk.
In due time he reached the farm--Rushy Shore--where the schoolhouse was for rent.
Around the headland upon which it was situated the waters swept with a mighty impetus and a deafening roar that gave the place its descriptive name of Rushy Shore.
On Monday Ishmael arose early and walked over to Rushy Shore, opened his schoolhouse, lighted a fire in it, and sat down at his teacher's desk to await the arrival of his pupils.
Upon this afternoon he reached Rushy Shore just as the family were sitting down to dinner.
After posting his letter he walked rapidly homeward, calling at Rushy Shore on his way to inform his friends, the Middletons, of his change of fortune.
It is true that I have taken the Rushy Shore schoolhouse, which I intend to open on the third of January; but then I shall continue to reside here with you, and walk backward and forward between this and that.
Ishmael paused for a moment and then added: "On the first of September I shall open the Rushy Shore schoolhouse, for the reception of day pupils.
Dainty, and Lovely, and Bustler, after dwelling and hesitating over somerushy ground, at length proclaim the scent beyond.
After crossing the burnt ground she made for a greasy sheep-track, up which she ran some fifty yards, and then deliberately retracing her steps, threw herself with a mighty spring into a rushy furze patch at the bottom of the hill.
Oh, to approach this music nearer, to listen to it alone by the rushy basin!
Broken bottles and scraps of paper were defacing the hill turf, and when she turned to get to the water's edge she found the rushy coverts trampled on every side.
She reached the moor beyond the policies, and, once past this rushy wilderness, came to the Avelin-side and a single plank bridge which she crossed lightly without a tremor.
At last comes the summer truce and happy days of peace in the tangled jungle of the marsh, with the wild duck and bittern nesting beside his watery path, the marsh wren weaving her rushy bower above it.
North of Guildford to the west is Worplesdon Common, a stretch of heathery, rushy ground over which have gone many marches and manoeuvres, and north of the common is the home of Mr. Frederick Selous, the African traveller and naturalist.
There were other rushy lagoons at a greater distance which we visited only at long intervals, and one of these I must describe, as it was almost more attractive than any one of the others on account of its bird life.
The Teal breeds in the long rushy herbage about the edges of lakes, or on the boggy parts of upland moors.
The nest is constructed on the borders of rushy lakes, and they lay from eight to twelve eggs.
As they emerged from the lane upon a rushy mead, and left the boundary of the park, a low whistle was heard, which they answered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rushy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
