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In the final lap, the 21-year-old El Guerrouj (pronounced "guh-roosh") clipped another runner and fell.

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She thought of having it scolloped, but in hot weather scollops are apt to spile unless cookt, and I think a _roosh_ of oyster shells would be rather more _distangue_.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 Various

So 'cardenly, I laid into the mess of it, workin' off the bank where the trees was drownin 'themselves head-down in the roosh -- just such weather as this -- an' the brook creepin 'up on me all the time.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

The roosh nigh jerked the pooker out of his hand-grips, an 'he calls to me, an' I come runnin 'barefoot.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then we pulled on the pooker, an 'it reared up on eend in the roosh, an' we guessed what

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

"He vas get oop and roosh at me vonce mores, and I vas knock hims down on ze deck again; and zen, you vas coom oop ze hatchway, and dat vas all."

The Island Treasure 1887

"Misther Vlinders vas roosh to sthrike me, and I vas knock hims down," said Jan Steenbock, in his laconic fashion.

The Island Treasure 1887

"Elephants is what they call 'telligent beasts, and you don't know but what that there annymile is a-hearing every word you say and only waiting till I'm gone to make a roosh, knock you down, and do his war-dance all over you."

Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

Every time any one makes a start he begins to roosh, and then goes back in amongst the trees, and when I come away I never see anything like it in my life.

Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

Why, I heard you at the furnace door, and as soon as I shouted, I hears you both roosh up the steps.

Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870