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Definition of Heavings
1. heaving [n] - See also: heaving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavings
Literary usage of Heavings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"nil alive, breath too In birdlike heavings unto death, Night came, and Nature
had not thec; I said, ' We are mates in misery. ..."
2. A Poet of the Air: Letters of Jack Morris Wright, First Lieutenant of the by Jack Morris Wright (1918)
"All the rest are but fancies to distract me — flutterings of the heart, not
heavings of the soul. And there is all the difference between the nervous, ..."
3. Letters on International Relations Before and During the War of 1870 by Karl Abel (1871)
"heavings IN THE EAST. Berlin, September 15, 18«8. THOUGH the troops at Chalons
have repeatedly saluted him with shouts of Au Rhin! and Vive la Guerre ! the ..."
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