“The first gusher of the Kirkuk oilfield was not struck till 1926, after the League of Nations had finally awarded the area to Iraq, not Turkey.”

“The company just can't seem put a foot wrong as it continues to find gusher after gusher in the northern Indian region of Rajasthan.”

“He never assembled the rigs when a gusher was struck or helped carve out the rail tracks and roads that brought in more labour.”

“He reared back, howling in pain, one hand frantically trying to stifle the sudden gush of blood.”

“As he lay helplessly, she felt a gush of love and gratitude in her suffering heart.”

“I have never met a person in New York City who greeted the topic of this journalist with a smile and a gush about her not being so bad.”

“However, these intervals of gushiness are insignificant in the book as a whole.”

“Enid Blyton is also a given, although her own book is mercifully free of the girlish gushiness of both.”

“The result is a warm, honest and ambling little story that avoids over-sentimentality and gushiness.”

“The actual dinner was fine and the views worthy of all the gushings generated by the copywriter in the brochure we'd picked up earlier that week.”

“Oh, then what gushings forth of living water are seen to flow out from the smitten Rock!”

“No gushers, no oil spewing down like black rain from creaky wooden derricks.”

“As the snow melts, water slowly per-colates through the ground, steadily feeding the springs that replenish these gushers.”

“A weighting agent adds body to petroleum and prevents the formation of gushers.”