Bruce Barton contributed his drops of wisdom to an onrushing tide.

Clutching Billie Bogan with his good arm, he steered her in a protective manner through an onrushing tide of people on Fifth Avenue.

He struggles forward through the onrushing tide of retreating troops, striving to turn them to battle.

One suspects that even Mr. Serra's heavy steel plates would have little success slowing the onrushing tide of train-bound commuters in this difficult and peculiar location.

Mount Taylor loomed in the distance like a rampart that might someday, somehow stop the onrushing tide of losangelesation.

He abruptly turned his back to the onrushing tide, then crouched and leaped up just as the water slammed into him.

The onrushing Vandal tide is turning.

Driven before the onrushing tides of Nordic invasion, the Cimmerians were on the march, and neither army nor city stood before them.

In that onrushing tide of yearning I didn't even think of her as my grandmother.

It explores the confusion and desperation that ensue when the onrushing tide of hormones meets the ignorance of children raised by parents too embarrassed or prudish to discuss what those new urges signify.