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Definition of Stirrings
1. stirring [n] - See also: stirring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirrings
Literary usage of Stirrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America by Henry A Kissinger (1998)
"Stirrings of Change -- The period of the 1930's was terribly disruptive in Central
America. As the bottom dropped out of the market for Central America's ..."
2. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1837)
"... matured to penitence and peace by the faint stirrings of that better spirit
which cannot be quenched. W. PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SOCIETIES. ..."
3. The Making of the American Citizenry: An Introduction to Political Socialization by Michael P. Riccards (1973)
"... The Stirrings of Moral Authority At first, it may seem unnecessary to discuss
the child in his earliest and admittedly ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"The stirrings of literary ambition, with all the sense of pride and pleasure
which the first exercise of power of mind affords; the delight with which his ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1889)
"Many a man now doing noble work can trace the first stirrings of those higher
thoughts and aims that have dominated Krom u photograph] John Campbell Shairp. ..."