rushing
/ˈɹʌʃɪŋ/ adjective C2- Rapidly flowing or surging.
- Full of activity, busy.
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“What is it?” asked Villefort, rushing from his room.
Halfway up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy.
The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from _Marmion_--which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart--and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.
On the evening when the Queen’s class first remained in school for the extra lessons and Anne saw Diana go slowly out with the others, to walk home alone through the Birch Path and Violet Vale, it was all the former could do to keep her seat and refrain from rushing impulsively after her chum.
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