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Definition of Swishings
1. swishing [n] - See also: swishing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swishings
Literary usage of Swishings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"His sympathy was against this form of punishment altogether, and to compare the
swishings which boys received in schools with the form of punishment ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1884)
"... he could hardly in those days have escaped not one more, but many " swishings."
But it was not to be. He remained with Dr. Hooker until he was fifteen, ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"... except compelled to go to school, are not generally over anxious to essay the
ordeal, and prefer hunting and shooting to swishings and Latin hexameters. ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"His sympathy was against this form of punishment altogether, and to compare the
swishings which boys received in schools with the form of punishment ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1884)
"... he could hardly in those days have escaped not one more, but many " swishings."
But it was not to be. He remained with Dr. Hooker until he was fifteen, ..."
6. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1854)
"... except compelled to go to school, are not generally over anxious to essay the
ordeal, and prefer hunting and shooting to swishings and Latin hexameters. ..."
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