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Definition of Swanning
1. swan [v] - See also: swan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swanning
Literary usage of Swanning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1833)
"Mr. Jessop estimates that the expense of transit on the Midland Counties Railway
of thirty-four miles, will not be more than on the swanning- ton of 16 ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"He heard a tinkling in his ears us if bells were ringing, or a humming as if bees
were swanning round his head, and his lips quivered, but ibis motion was ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... the animalcule cage filled, the focus of the microscope adjusted, and to our
delight, the water was swanning with Rotifers ; and from that clay to this, ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1833)
"Mr. Jessop estimates that the expense of transit on the Midland Counties Railway
of thirty-four miles, will not be more than on the swanning- ton of 16 ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"He heard a tinkling in his ears us if bells were ringing, or a humming as if bees
were swanning round his head, and his lips quivered, but ibis motion was ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... the animalcule cage filled, the focus of the microscope adjusted, and to our
delight, the water was swanning with Rotifers ; and from that clay to this, ..."
7. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"They are swanning on the other side, away across the field, at the foot of the
hills. Now that the sun is fairly up, I see their red breeches ; it is our ..."
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