Rushes

The second the mailman comes, he rushes out to pick up his mail.

He threads his way between the trees... and rushes under the bridge.

I'm alone standing at the tip of the slow-dying year, the universe breaking in waves at my feet, planets whirling about my head, rumpling my hair in the wind that rushes by, without giving an answer that would fill the abyss.

"Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood.

Here he saw a pool of water, clear to its very depths. There were no marsh reeds round it, no sterile sedge, no spikes of rushes: it was crystal liquid. The edges of the pool were bordered by fresh turf, and the grass was always green.

I looked round, with a chill of fear in my heart, at the huge swelling plain, mottled with the green patches of rushes. Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.

Women sometimes pardon the one who rushes the occasion, but not the one who misses it.

He rushes towards Tamaright.

I saw a large stone at a little distance, and thinking that it would afford me some protection if I slept beside it, I began to pull up some rushes with which to form my bed.

The river never rushes.