Came a great uprush of ghostly light above the black rim of rocks, and then like a bubble that is blown and detaches itself the moon floated off clear into the unfathomable dark sky.
It stood out against a streaming, whirlinguprush of red-lit steam.
As the funnel descends, the clouds above and about it may be seen to take on a whirling movement around the centre, and under favourable circumstances an uprush of vapours may be noted in the centre of the swaying shaft.
Fortunately, where these great whirlwinds trespass on the continent, they quickly die out, because of the relative lack of moisture which serves to stimulate the uprush which creates them.
Thus, in the Charleston earthquake of 1883, the surface over an area of many hundred square miles was pitted with small craters, formed by the uprush of water impelled by its contained gases.
The energy of theuprush in both cases is increased by the energy set free through the condensation of the water, which tends further to heat and thus to expand the air.
When such a place of uprush is established, the hot air next the surface flows in all directions toward the shaft, joining the expedition to the heights of the atmosphere.
In the centre of the column, although it rarely has a diameter of more than a few hundred feet, the uprush is so swift that it makes a partial vacuum.
If the doctor had struck him with the buggy whip the shock would not have been more real than that consequent on the snapping of mental tension strings and the surging, strangling uprush of the tidal wave of relief.
Two of you take him behind, and--" The break came on the uprush of the unanticipated reinforcements.
And with what an uprushof affection she responded, what eagerness to help, to be friends again!
But, curiously, she felt no such uprush of shame now; her fury mysteriously ebbed from her.
Then came a great uprush or incursion from the spiritual world, and with new races and new ideals Europe regained its youth.
The subliminal uprush which inspires the poet or the musician presents to him a deep, but vague perception of that world unseen, through which the seer or the sensitive projects a narrower but an exacter gaze.
The content of the uprushwill be congruous with the train of voluntary thought; and the man of genius will be a man more capable than others of utilising for his waking purposes the subliminal region of his being.
To use the terms employed in this work, every language begins as a subliminal uprush and ends as a supraliminal artifice.
This, so to speak, is genius with a vengeance; this is a too persistent uprush of subliminal zeal, co-operating even out of season with the hortatory instincts of the waking self.
That is sleep, and sleep is characterised by those incoherent forms of subliminal uprush which we know as dreams.
For here we find again just what we found in those inspirations--the uprush of a complex intellectual product, performed beneath the threshold, and projected ready-made into ordinary consciousness.
Similarly we find cases where the uprush of subliminal faculty is concerned with the deep organic sensation of muscular resistance.
In Stevenson's paper on his own dreams, alluded to in Chapter III, we have one of the most striking examples known to me of that helpful and productive subliminal uprush which I have characterised as the mechanism of genius.
The vehementuprush of the old emotion made reflection of any kind impossible.
For the sameuprush of fancy which had shown him with all the force of mathematical demonstration that life had no meaning, brought with it another idea; and that was why Cronshaw, he imagined, had given him the Persian rug.
Until the eighteenth century Beaverhood was common, since that time it has grown rarer and rarer, with a sudden uprush of fur to the face in the middle of the last century, an uprush which has now almost died away.
To Maurice, rushing on alone, the relief of hating Eleanor was lost in the uprush of that ghastly possibility: "If it is mine?
But even as he said the word, he had an uprush of courage; he would get a lawyer, and shut her up!
A hundred years later Olafsen and Povelsen described it as having three or four eruptions a day, some of them attaining the height of 300 feet, including, doubtless, the uprush of vapor.
She could not hold back a sudden uprush of resentment.
He was embarrassed, caught in an uprush of self-consciousness.
It came to him now, with a warm little uprush of memory, that the best piece of writing he had ever done would be in this issue.
Henry clasped it; gulped down an all but uncontrollable uprush of feeling; looked down again.
It was an uprush of that angry loyalty, that determination to hold close to his own, which made him say as soon as he was seated, "I've been home for two weeks.
An uprush of intense feeling, pity for this blighted creature, this maimed and helpless thing, rescued by chance from a horrible death, rose and flooded her.
She saw it in his and it increased her desperation, he in her's, and in the uprush of his anger he forgot his fear.
At the first glance he could hardly believe it, then seeing it immovable, a gleaming disk of promise, his face flushed deep in the uprush of his joy.
In an uprush of despair his life unrolled before him, all, it now seemed, progressing to this climax.
It caused a sudden uprush of his old timidity and he stood irresolute, in everybody's way, spying at the distant golden head.
