196 adjectives to describe rushes

The whole world was represented, and it was interesting to see the different typesSoutherners, small, slight, dark, impatient, wriggling through the crowdthe Anglo-Saxons, big, broad, calm, squaring their shoulders when there came a sudden rush, and waiting quite patiently a chance to get a little ahead.

There was a swift, free rush of the red.

"Many sons of the fatherland are sleeping their last sleep in the open fields and in ditches where they fell or under hedges where they crawled after being caught by a rifle bullet or piece of shell, or where they sought shelter from the mad rush of the franc-tireurs, who have not lost their natural dexterity with the knife and who at close quarters frequently throw away their rifles and fight hand to hand.

" This speech had a wonderful effect: instantly there was a mighty rush, all the Little Men hurrying away in all directions, shouting and tumbling over each other in their haste to get away, and by-and-by it looked to Martin as if they were having a great struggle or contest over something.

Curiously, and with a little rush of excitement, Kurt began to read.

He coaxed the student up by pretended inactivity; he rushed at him with furious rushes towards the ropes.

He caught the ball in his hands, and at the same moment Noaks made a fierce rush, meaning to knock him through the goal.

Reading the 'proof' of an instalment of a comic serial now publishing in my paper, I contracted such gloom, that a frantic rush into the fresh air was my only hope of on escape from self-destruction.

The wild man must pass away with the woods and the forests, before the onward rush of civilization, and history will soon be all that will remain of the Indian and his ancient brother the beaver.

She had no sense that her own limbs or her own will carried her, in the impetuous rush with which Connie flew.

The cleverest footwork could not always elude his tremendous rushes, the coolest ducking and dodging could not wholly escape that frantic shower of fists.

But the company are kept serene by a little extra singing, or something of that kind, and in the meantime a rapid rush is made to the parsonage, and the missing manuscript is secured, conveyed to the church either in a basket or a pocket, taken into the pulpit, looked at rather fiercely, shook a little, and then read through.

" "We're just starved," they cried, and began a concerted rush back to the front of the house where their "friends with the provisions" were.

"But what have I to do with this Bruder AsmAsmo?" he stammered, a desperate rush of words crowding vainly behind the halting tongue.

Behind the orchard and weedy waste the ground sloped down to a stream of running water, full of tall rushes with dark green polished stems, and yellow water-lilies.

"In every tiny block of muscle there is a part which is really alive, there are parts which are becoming alive, there are parts which have been alive, and are now dying or dead; there is an upward rush from the lifeless to the living, a downward rush from the living to the dead.

He'll drown!" Half a dozen were shouting in unison, as the boys crowded to the side over which the bully had pitched when Frank avoided his forward rush.

Instantly the Navy swung its entire line toward the left, for this was the grand rush, the die on which everything was cast!

And who would, who CAN, stand still amidst the universal rush?

"My poor fellows were dreadfully alarmed, and about twenty of them made a simultaneous rush into the water for my rescue, and just as I reached the opposite bank one seized me by the arms and another clasped me round the body.

"In every tiny block of muscle there is a part which is really alive, there are parts which are becoming alive, there are parts which have been alive, and are now dying or dead; there is an upward rush from the lifeless to the living, a downward rush from the living to the dead.

My views concerning the Treaty at the time of the conversation with Mr. Bullitt are expressed in a memorandum of May 8, 1919, which is as follows: "The terms of peace were yesterday delivered to the German plenipotentiaries, and for the first time in these days of feverish rush of preparation there is time to consider the Treaty as a complete document.

I here makethe awful end, which, alas! bespoke the fiery rush and impulse to destroy which marked Carmel's unbridled rages.

A terrific rush, a snap of the long jaws like a steel trap,then the old wolf would toss back the rabbit with a broken back, for the cub to finish him.

It needed just one hand to be laid upon the Pathan's shoulder as he forced his way towards the door, just one blow to be struck, and the ugly rush would come.

196 adjectives to describe  rushes