Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockings
Literary usage of Rockings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"A series of rockings of the water of the whole lake takes place about a nodal
line passing through its centre, the water at either end rising and falling ..."
2. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1875)
"But the schoolmaster and the magistrate are now abroad ; and while the rockings
are fast disappearing, the Edie Ochiltree who inspired them is dying in the ..."
3. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1855)
"But the schoolmaster and the magistrate are now abroad ; and while the rockings
are fast disappearing, the Edie Ochiltree who inspired ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"I understand that at the Old Manse, our friend David Syme's residence, at Kinross,
the shock was very violent, and four distinct rockings were felt. ..."
5. The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts by Reginald John Farrer (1918)
"... and, after a few wild rockings forward and back, blandly proceeds toward his
next trial. This, let us take it, is a big square pile of built-up earth, ..."
6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"I understand that at the Old Manse, our friend David Syme's residence, at Kinross,
the shock was very violent, and four distinct rockings were felt. ..."
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