Definitions
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- adverb In a rushing manner.
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- adverb While
rushing ; in a greathurry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those years were like the first few weeks of a new romance, when every utterence makes your heart pound and your head spin and you want to stay up all night talking and touching and you feel yourself filled by this recent stranger who suddenly, rushingly, becomes indespensible to your life.
Wandering the Towers – An Academic Romance, Part 1 | Living the Liminal 2008
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If memories of Glen started rushingly upon her, they were halted by something she felt in the air, something in the cold, set speech of the man she loved as never she had thought to love a creature of the earth.
The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels
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Harry, who had been lord of her life, receded rushingly to a place of secondary importance, and she transferred her allegiance to this invisible presence who was possessed of such power over her that even now, when it could not be seen or touched or heard or imagined, it could make itself loved.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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In the rushingly enlarged vision I had of them, the wrath on the woman's face was even more saliently the main thing than I had supposed it would be.
A Relic 1919
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Had there been in truth an element of such trashy copying of the conventional pose of revolt in what had seemed so rushingly spontaneous?
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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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.
The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909
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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.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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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.
The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903
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Then, as Dorcas stopped, in a calm inquiry, the woman went on rushingly, all the words she had not meant to say tumbling forth as she had thought them.
Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902
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All his life during the last year passed rushingly across his mind.
Lothair Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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