2. Verb. (third-person singular of gush) ¹
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Definition of Gushes
1. gush [v] - See also: gush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gushes
Literary usage of Gushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... that are worth a farthing), and were ready to find coincidences, sympathies,
hidden gushes of feeling, mystic unions of the soul, and what not, ..."
2. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"... as it were, a bridge for a distance of more thau three leagues ; and when it
appears again, gushes out, apparently boiling, from amidst some sedges, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle: With Personal by Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson (1881)
"The Arched House," as the dwelling is called, is a humble cottage standing close
to the spot where the little burn now gushes out again into the light of ..."
4. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"For me the mine a thousand treasures brings; For mo health gushes from a thousand
springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, ..."
5. Scenes and Thoughts in Europe by George Henry Calvert (1846)
"The water gushes out through five apertures in volume enough for a Swiss cascade.
TUESDAY, March 7th. We drove out this morning to the Villa Pamphili, ..."
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