inrushes

Everyone, man or woman, who is endowed at birth with a sensitive nature is subject to occasional inrushes of detachment that without warning cut him off from realities for moments or hours, converting everyday matters into the consistency of dream-life.

The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

Hercules Furens is an almost gratuitous diversion in the midst of the talk; and the tameness of a literal (often awkwardly literal) translation is rarely broken by those inrushes of alien genius which are the glory of Browning's Alkestis.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

There are numerous persons who are as serious and earnest and passionate as the loftiest mystical saint, and who, in spite of all their listening for the inner flow of things, discover no inrushes, feel no invasions, are aware of no environing Companion, do not even feel a "More of Consciousness conterminous and continuous with their own."

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

His vivid and pictorial imagination, his consciousness of inrushes from the unplumbed deeps within, and his inclination to solitude and meditation are well in evidence at an early age, and we have no difficulty at all in seeing that his psychological equilibrium was unstable, and that he was capable of sudden shifts of inward level.

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

It mothers strange offspring -- Esaus as well as Jacobs; its openings, its inrushes, its bubblings must be severely tested.

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

Furens_ is an almost gratuitous diversion in the midst of the talk; and the tameness of a literal (often awkwardly literal) translation is rarely broken by those inrushes of alien genius which are the glory of

Robert Browning 1892