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- noun Plural form of
quaking .
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Examples
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The expedition went out into the passage, not without quakings.
Number 13 by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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The rocks became still, the quakings ceased, and now those Ancient Ones who had been labouring could take breath.
The Moon Pool 2004
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So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.
Walden 2004
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From many reasons, I believe that the frequent quakings of the earth on this line of coast are caused by the rending of the strata, necessarily consequent on the tension of the land when upraised, and their injection by fluidified rock.
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From many reasons, I believe that the frequent quakings of the earth on this line of coast are caused by the rending of the strata, necessarily consequent on the tension of the land when upraised, and their injection by fluidified rock.
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However, in spite of all his fears and heart-quakings he went in, and asked for Nastasia
The Idiot 2002
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The most severe quakings were felt three days later, when great damage was done.
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Croswell needed assistance in these days of financial quakings and threatened party divisions, but he would accept it only from a master.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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'Twas with inward quakings, for beauty, were it Helen's own, is but a blunted arrow against a seasoned heart of seventy: and Sir Francis Lepel had reached that discreet age.
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She had never wanted either of her men to know the inward quakings of her soul over each new risk as Stephen began to grow up.
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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