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By the time the backwash from Ferrari had gathered serious momentum, the tidal effect would be motor racings equivalent of a tsunami, one that would come close to tearing McLaren from its reputable roots.

Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008

This black-tie function in Londons Grosvenor House is motor racings equivalent of the Oscars and, as such, it is attended by the great and the good of the sport.

Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008

As Nick Hogan faces reckless driving charges for his part in a near fatal August crash on the Florida freeway, a movie called about street racing, entitled Vehicular Lunatics, has surfaced featuring Brooke Hogan, Linda Hogan, and Hulk Hogan praising the dangers of drag-racings.

Hogan Divorce Settlement 2007

Harry had never said a word about his wild doings, or his horse-racings, or his gamblings, or his extravagances.

The Virginians 2006

Then the dishes she compounded, after intense calculations over the cook-book, and frequent racings down-stairs to consult with Mrs. Hoffstott, were really toothsome and delicate; besides being brought about with precision and forethought, so that all might not crowd together at the end.

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

Shoutings for the mkhaznia, infuriated commands to the guards, racings to the stables and the Kasbah yard, unhobbling of horses, stamping and clattering of hoofs, and scurryings through dark corridors of men carrying torches and flares.

The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Hall Caine 1892

He tired his body with divings, racings, leapings, and shouting.

The Art of Disappearing John Talbot Smith 1889

There was a fresh breeze of wind behind that line of sweeping thickness, and in places, at the base of the mass of blankness, it would dart out in swift racings of shadow that made one think of the feelers of some gigantic marine spider, probing under its cobweb as though feeling its way along.

The Honour of the Flag 1877

Within there was an odour of spirits and spilled ale, a rustle of sporting papers, talk of racings, and the click of billiard-balls.

The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867

Does she see all your swearings, and your drinkings, and your fightings, and your hankerings after money, and your horse-racings, and your cock-fightings?

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I 1856