Lexicographical Neighbors of Throwings
Literary usage of Throwings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insurance Guide and Handbook on Fire, Life, Marine, Tontine, and by Cornelius Walford (1868)
"It can be reckoned beforehand just how many " heads" and how many "tails," in
the whole number of throwings, will be up or down. ..."
2. The Agent's Manual of Life Assurance by Henry Clay Fish (1867)
"It can be reckoned beforehand just how many fe heads " and how many ee tails,"
in the whole number of throwings, will be up or down. ..."
3. The Agent's Manual of Life Assurance by Henry Clay Fish (1867)
"It can be reckoned beforehand just how many ff heads " and how many ff tails,"
in the whole number of throwings, will be up or down. ..."
4. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... accompanying himself on the concertina, which he played with ecstatic throwings-up
of his arms, and graceful twistings and turnings of his head, ..."
5. Philosophical Magazine (1830)
"... as it were marking the throwings up of an adit. Except the Stein-Ecke, all
these masses of basalt have nothing to distinguish them from others of a ..."
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