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Definition of Rumblings
1. rumbling [n] - See also: rumbling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumblings
Literary usage of Rumblings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years of New York Politics Up-to-date by Matthew Patrick Breen (1899)
"rumblings PRECEDING THE ... of that year were the rumblings of discontent heard
in any disquieting volume, although suspicion, nurtured by hints and rumors, ..."
2. Russia from the American Embassy, April, 1916-November, 1918 by David Rowland Francis (1922)
"CHAPTER IV rumblings OF REVOLUTION ON December 23rd, 1916, I delivered to Foreign
Minister Pokrovski President Wilson's communication to each of the ..."
3. History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Frances Fuller Victor (1890)
"... rumblings—CLIMATE— ANIMATED NATURE. IMAGINE an undulating plain extending from
the mouth of the Platte river westward over five hundred miles, ..."
4. The Coming Climax in the Destinies of America by Lester Coe Hubbard (1891)
"CHAPTER VII PREMONITORY rumblings "The actual state of Society, it is useless to
deny it, is a state of war, of active irreconcilable war on every side and ..."
5. A Private Chapter of the War by George W. Bailey (1880)
"Listen ! the distant thunder of heavy guns — midnight's slumbers broken by dreaded
rumblings of war; but the cannon's echo, that awakens, ..."
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