It was with difficulty that the girl avoided the first
mad rush of the wounded animal.
At the Earths Core
Several of the girls, who stood outside guarding the palace, were knocked over by the Saw-Horse's
mad rush. Others ran screaming out of the way, and only one or two jabbed their knitting-needles frantically at the escaping prisoners.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Terrible as they were, they could not have commenced to approximate the horrible conditions which must have obtained before Tars Tarkas, the great green warrior, Xodar, the black dator, and I brought the light of truth to the outer world and stopped the
mad rush of millions upon the voluntary pilgrimage to what they believed would end in a beautiful valley of peace and happiness and love.
Warlord of Mars
The man went to the ground sidewise, leaped to his feet, and made a
mad rush. Martin saw his passion-distorted face and wondered what could be the cause of the fellow's anger.
Martin Eden
A
mad rush of anger sent him leaping in amongst the combatants.
White Fang
As big John flung himself upon him, the archer ducked under the great red hands that clutched for him, and, catching his man round the thighs, hurled him over his shoulder--helped as much by his own
mad rush as by the trained strength of the heave.
The White Company
The fellow made a most vicious return assault upon De Conde, attempting to ride him down in one
mad rush, but his thrust passed harmlessly from the tip of the outlaw's sword, and as the officer wheeled back to renew the battle they settled down to fierce combat, their horses wheeling and turning shoulder to shoulder.
The Outlaw of Torn
One short
mad rush, and then a stitch in the side, and no more honest play.
Tom Browns Schooldays
What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the valley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when nobody knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the
mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the elephants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
Jungle Book
The same masks, the same yells, the same
mad rushes, the same bedlam of disguised humanity blowing about the streets in the great gusts of mistral that seemed to make them dance like dead leaves on an earth where all joy is watched by death.
Arrow of Gold
SHREWSBURY boss Sam Ricketts says there is 'no
mad rush' to sign two goalkeepers - while an offer for Reice Charles-Cook is still on the table.
No rush to bring in keepers - Ricketts
It is painful for parents, especially at pick up time a
mad rush is seen outside schools that don't have ample parking space.
Use technology, carpooling to ease off traffic issues
In the
mad rush to make money hand over fist, once serene residential societies are being turn into concrete slums by greedy builders.
Highrise buildings (2)
One understands why there's such a
mad rush in 'breaking' the news first.
What's the Rush?
If asked to pinpoint one grievous malady that the world of today suffers from, one would not be far off the mark to point the finger at the fetish of 'speed.' As one looks around, all one sees is one
mad rush. Not that there's a train to catch, but apparently one that if missed could conceivably lead to earth-shaking consequences if not worse.
The fetish of speed