A rushy marsh. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The eldest had drained a small field, which used to be called the rushy field, from its having been quite covered with rushes. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
There was no "rushy" side effects, just a little bit of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference
It wasn't a big rushy thing-no colors or special effects. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
Worn, -- as amid the rushy marsh by stag that made his lair. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
It was too crowded and too rushy and I just wasn't getting anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with William Gordon, January 19, 1991. Interview A-0364. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Often it is the wind I hear, a whispering, rushy sound in the boughs. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
"That's not right," said Kevin in that rushy, teacherish voice he used. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Everything seems so rushy and It's really bugging me and wearing me out. From Wordnik.com. [mesocyclone Diary Entry] Reference
I thinky Ricpic has a little crushy rushy on the titustutudancearabasque. From Wordnik.com. [Who will determine whether John McCain is a "natural-born citizen," qualified for the presidency?] Reference
Oh, to approach this music nearer, to listen to it alone by the rushy basin!. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
At last he got into a low rushy spot, where he saw before him many circular rings. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
What it likes is a still, rushy pool, or some sluggish brook overhung with vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Family, thus associating the Fairies with marshy, or rushy, places, or with ferns and heather as their dwelling places. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Some natives opposite fishing in the lake; one here busy making a net from the rushy grass that abounds round the lake. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
Maud wondered what the cat did during the day, whether it hung around the pier, catching field mice in the rushy grass. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Pier]
‘Then turn to-night, and freely share Whate’er my cell bestows; My rushy couch, and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
One evening, returning to the hut with her usual song, she danced up to her father's face on his rushy bed, and it was cold in death. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828] Reference
The river, broadened by the burns on either hand that joined it, grew soon to a rapid and tumultuous current washing round the rushy bends, and the Dhu. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It was a weedy rushy part of the river that we entered. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
And what a dog she was in thick cover, or in rushy swamps!. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
"The bog-bane to the rushy curragh, say I, Nancy," said Pete. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
While rushy rains shall fall or brooks shall fleet from fountains. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
This beautiful little quail is generally found in marshes, or in high rushy ground. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
He carried her directly to his hut, and left her sleeping profoundly on his rushy couch. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
But, after they departed, and proceeded on their way, they came to rushy, grassy Asopus. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
The Peneian waters, and the Spercheian as well, contributed something, and the rushy shores of. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
There came the same sort of rushy sound; then the cuckoo stopped, and Griselda opened her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cuckoo Clock] Reference
Asia, but here used only as a toothpick, began to oust the rushy and flaggy growth of the lower bed. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
"We were in the meadows by Ghyllfoot this afternoon, and they were looking very sour and rushy," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold Trail] Reference
The latter went one morning to a rushy field, to look at some newly born foals; and there York pointed to a snipe. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals] Reference
But its depths, the marshes far beyond sight behind them, and the little, hidden, rushy lakes, were alive with game. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
They are much employed throughout the Puna to hunt the "yutu," a species of partridge which inhabits the rushy grass. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
'Then turn to-night, and freely share Whate'er my cell bestows; My rushy couch, and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
As far as the eye could reach, the rushy tufted moorland extended, bounded in the distance by lofty, round-backed hills. From Wordnik.com. [A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid] Reference
They went as far up-stream as the little steamer could run, and then landed on the bank which abutted on some rushy meadows. From Wordnik.com. [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference
The lake was about five miles round, and was quite full of water, the surface of which was covered with a scant, but tall, rushy grass. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Her post was at the west end of the camp, where the field merged into a rushy swamp before it rose into the hill that led towards the farm. From Wordnik.com. [For the Sake of the School] Reference
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