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Definition of Paddlings
1. paddling [n] - See also: paddling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paddlings
Literary usage of Paddlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1904)
"... to wit, December, 1882, and within a period of ten days was subjected to five
different paddlings, receiving on each of two given days over 200 blows. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1889)
"... rattling whistle, its short, uneasy flights, and its restless paddlings up
and down the ooze. Watch the sea-pie from behind some boulder, ..."
3. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"... comic dialogue liberally interspersed \ with loud paddlings of the comedian's
seat, some bar- ] room scherzi and forty or fifty rosy-cheeked trollops. ..."
4. Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)
"Luxurious paddlings in the spray, And delicate lifting up of wings. Then all at
once a flight, and fast The lovely crowd flew out at sea; If mine own life ..."
5. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1901)
"IT is difficult to say which part of this book is the more delightful, Mr.
Dutt's charming narrative of his wanderings and paddlings through Norfolk and ..."
6. California Pastoral. 1769-1848 by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"... veracious old Ulysses, in his little paddlings thereabout, that he had been
five times round the world, to have seen so many things which never existed. ..."
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