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Definition of Swayings
1. swaying [n] - See also: swaying
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swayings
Literary usage of Swayings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aspects of the Earth: A Popular Account of Some Familiar Geological Phenomena by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1900)
"Classification of Movements : swayings, Pulsations, Tremors.—Volcanic Movements.—Nature
of Earthquake Shocks ; Manner of their Movement through the Rocks ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
7. The Works of Orville Dewey, D.D.: With a Biographical Sketch by Orville Dewey (1883)
"But all progress goes by swayings back and forth ; and the question is, whether
the rationalistic tendency may not, on this subject, go too far ; just as ..."
8. Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"... kind of movement, which we may term earth swayings, or massive movements,
which slowly dislocate the vertical, and doubtless also the horizontal, ..."
9. Aspects of the Earth: A Popular Account of Some Familiar Geological Phenomena by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1900)
"Classification of Movements : swayings, Pulsations, Tremors.—Volcanic Movements.—Nature
of Earthquake Shocks ; Manner of their Movement through the Rocks ..."
10. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
11. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
12. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
13. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
14. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Movement is inhibited only in part, and awkward swayings and twitchings result.
Children in normal healthy growth show a lack of coordination and control ..."
15. The Works of Orville Dewey, D.D.: With a Biographical Sketch by Orville Dewey (1883)
"But all progress goes by swayings back and forth ; and the question is, whether
the rationalistic tendency may not, on this subject, go too far ; just as ..."
16. Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"... kind of movement, which we may term earth swayings, or massive movements,
which slowly dislocate the vertical, and doubtless also the horizontal, ..."
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