Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumpings
Literary usage of Bumpings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Outline of Logic by Boyd Henry Bode (1910)
"It would require a very complex combination of undirected bumpings and rubbings
to shape one piece of flint into an arrow-head, so that arrow-head flints so ..."
2. The Theory of Knowledge: A Contribution to Some Problems of Logic and by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1896)
"It would require a very complex combination of undirected bumpings and rubbings
to shape one piece of flint into an arrow-head, so that arrow-head flints so ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"If the heat be applied too strongly, the salt gives up its water of crystallisation,
and the anhydrous salt is thrown down, and produces violent bumpings of ..."
4. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"... rhythmic tendencies of my deaf pupils—tapping with pencils, swaying, rocking,
drumming with feet or hands, successive bumpings against walls, etc. ..."
5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1861)
"... and dances away by means of a series of jumps, regardless of time, or space,
or collisions with other couples, or bumpings up against the spectators. ..."
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