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Definition of Plainings
1. plaining [n] - See also: plaining
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plainings
Literary usage of Plainings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York by Solomon Northup (1855)
"Filling the air with herc'om- plainings, she was hustled, with the children and
myself, into the cell. Language can convoy but an inadequate impression of ..."
2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... Which props the column of unnatural state, You the plainings faint and low,
From misery's tortured soul that flow, « Shall usher to your fate. ..."
3. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York by Solomon Northup (1855)
"Filling the air with herc'om- plainings, she was hustled, with the children and
myself, into the cell. Language can convoy but an inadequate impression of ..."
4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... Which props the column of unnatural state, You the plainings faint and low,
From misery's tortured soul that flow, « Shall usher to your fate. ..."
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