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Soft rush   /sɑft rəʃ/   Listen
Soft rush

noun
1.
Tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America.  Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus.






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"Soft rush" Quotes from Famous Books



... to wait long for company. For one by one, the Lovely Ladies, wild with the joy of the mazy dance, the soft rush of the wind and the laughing and clapping of the little leaves, loose their hold, and drift to earth light as thistle-down, and that is the end of their dancing for that year. Where do they go to while the year goes by? ...
— Piccaninnies • Isabel Maud Peacocke

... into utter silence. Some small animal, meeting the death its brief life had evaded a hundred times, screamed shrilly, and was silent. Great branches, stirred by the night wind, moved high above his head, and when there was utter silence, Peter could hear the steady, soft rush of the ocean, dulled here to the sound of gigantic, ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris

... in the cry, and she came into the room with a sort of soft rush that was intensely feminine. The men were there. Nigel was sitting up, but leaning against cushions on the divan close to the upright piano, on which stood the score of "Gerontius." Isaacson was standing before him, bending, and holding both his hands ...
— Bella Donna - A Novel • Robert Hichens



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