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Definition of Strivings
1. striving [n] - See also: striving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strivings
Literary usage of Strivings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1903)
"... BLACK FOLK i OF OUR SPIRITUAL strivings O water, voice of my heart, crying in
the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, ..."
2. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1907)
"... BLACK FOLK i OF OUR SPIRITUAL strivings O water, voice of my heart, crying in
the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, Aa I lie and listen, ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"strivings FOR THE FAITH.*—The prevalence of certain forms of disease leads to
the multiplication and advertisement of intended remedies, and though, ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"strivings FOB THE FAITH.*—The prevalence of certain forms of disease leads to
the multiplication and advertisement of intended remedies, and though, ..."
5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"I am a panel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this way
and that, their links Were made so loose and wide ..."
6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this
way and that, their links Were made so loose and wide, Methinks, ..."
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