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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rush .
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Examples
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For the mind can never rest, but still meditates on one thing or other, except it be occupied about some honest business, of his own accord it rusheth into melancholy.
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Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys.
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Do like unto the wind when it rusheth forth from its mountain – caves: unto its own piping will it dance; the seas tremble and leap under its footsteps.
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And unwillingness to help may be nobler than the virtue that rusheth to do so.
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And whenever I lift a curtain, a night – moth rusheth out of it.
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I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
Jeremiah 8. 1999
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And seeing him the elephant, curling his trunk, rusheth into the water.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Pritha's son advanced towards his adversary, even as an infuriated leader of a herd of elephants rusheth at another elephant.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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If the whole world rusheth against me in wrath, I do not yet feel the influence of fear.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Ye Boston demoisselle weareth an waterproof guyascutus, [for so methinketh I haue hearde them calld,] and whan that itt rayneth or snoweth, shee rusheth forth as to a carnavall, and heedeth not yf ye powderie snowe-flakes falle on hir daintie littyl nose, or pile up like untoe a chancellor's wigg on hir hed.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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