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Example sentences for "heavings"

Lexicographically close words:
heavies; heaviest; heavily; heaviness; heaving; heaviside; heavy; heavyweight; heaw; heb
  1. Think of fierce tremblings and heavings lasting in constant succession through days and weeks of terror.

  2. It was not, therefore, without heavings of deep moral emotion and the flow of tears as well as of joyful spirits, that they put the wedding garment on.

  3. The heavings of her body and gaspings for breath were quite hysterical, while, with one of those real vice-like pressures, I felt as if she were nipping my prick in two.

  4. In this second heat the buddings or heavings were more considerable, and shot up in the form of cauli-flowers; but were still composed of little scales.

  5. All the lineaments which Providence traces on the surface of a nation have their gloomy, but distinct, parallels at the base, and all the convulsions of the interior produce up-heavings on the surface.

  6. Their bosoms swelled like the heavings of the billows on a little lake, when it is but slightly stirred by the breezes of spring.

  7. Yet does it appear plain that no convulsive heavings of an earthquake could have left its outline or its surface so smooth or regular.

  8. To one it arouses feelings akin to rapture; to another it is suggestive of heavings and horror.

  9. Safe in Christ, you can contemplate undismayed all the tossings and heavings of life's fretful sea!

  10. Though painful, it is yet pleasant to notice the heavings of natural affection in the martial bosom of a Roman soldier.

  11. On the left hand, the lines of the Vallum are feebly indicated, but by extending our glance some distance backwards and forwards, we can, with tolerable certainty, distinguish the artificial mounds from the natural heavings of the surface.


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