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Definition of Locomoting
1. locomote [v] - See also: locomote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locomoting
Literary usage of Locomoting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1834)
"Who but our author would represent him, "locomoting" on a long, dog-trot over
the bogs of his neighborhood, or going ahead like the famous steam-boat of ..."
2. The History of Georgia by Charles Colcock Jones (1883)
"... now confined to his couch, again a helpless cripple locomoting in an easy-chair
upon wheels; dependent for a livelihood upon the slender salary paid him ..."
3. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1919)
"... that is, they wriggle about very actively, at the same time retracting,
elongating, and locomoting in the blood. Later, Daniels found at the post-mortem ..."
4. The Americans at Home: Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1854)
"Whilst watching my companions and making signals for their return, I saw an
immense alligator " locomoting" across the water slightly in direction of my ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"... using only the front or pectoral legs in locomoting and carrying the abdominal
portion of the body erect. Immediately, or in a very brief period, ..."
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