Example Sentences

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He poured out his tale, sometimes rushingly and passionately, again, as his submerged but still conventional self-consciousness straggled to the surface, with shamefaced bravado.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward

As these died, in the span of silence before should come the next flash and crash, Steve became conscious of another sound, dull and distant at first, then nearer and rushingly loud.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

Evening was fast dropping down; and as the shade of night fell on the scene, the wind tossed more rushingly the boughs of the thick trees, and roared down the rocky valley.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

My zeal for expression from within-outward amounts to an enthusiasm, and is stated rushingly as an heroic measure is brought, only because it is so pitifully overlooked in the present scheme of things.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington

It leaped forth rushingly towards the target, and all eyes followed it in its flight.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)