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Definition of Oncomings
1. oncoming [n] - See also: oncoming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oncomings
Literary usage of Oncomings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1856)
"Then, as my heart was failing me for fear, and for looking at those inevitable
strange oncomings, and the fist eyes of my ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Besides the greater advances and retreats, there were numerous halts or oscillations
which probably affected the oncomings as well as the retreats of the ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Besides the greater advances and retreats, there were numerous halts or oscillations
which probably affected the oncomings as well as the retreats of the ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"... the greater advances and retreats, there were numerous halts or oscillations
which probably affected the oncomings as well as the retreats of the ice. ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Society by Albion Woodbury Small, George Edgar Vincent (1894)
"... the responsibility s oncomings must be distributed throughout the whole
organism, not fixed upon of the press • ° * the newspaper as the ultimate source ..."
6. Richard Croker by Alfred Henry Lewis (1901)
"... and not a stolid squatting on its haunches—of the moral-mental. Give a short
regard to medicine, an ensample of the physical, and measure its oncomings ..."
7. The Secret Woman by Eden Phillpotts (1905)
"With oncomings reluctant and slow it approached ; her wonderment died away and
the fact of his deed began to age and grow familiar. ..."
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