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  • noun Plural form of exploring.

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Examples

  • But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings.

    The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • One morning, when a soft south breeze was in motion, Maurice reminded her with an air of playful severity, that, so far, they had not learned to know even their nearer surroundings; while of all the romantic explorings in the pretty

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • She longed for the sorrowful and the afflicted, -- she would go down to the forgotten and the oppressed, -- and made herself the companion of the Doctor's secret walks and explorings among the poor victims of the slave-ships, and entered with zeal as teacher among his

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

  • They were in a long attic room close under the roof – a room that they had certainly, in all their explorings, never found before.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • We really do have the most delightful and sympathetic walks and explorings.

    Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

  • But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings.

    The Time Machine 1906

  • Captain John Smith, now president in the colony, opposed the vain explorings, and sent the council in London a characteristic "rude letter."

    American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

  • But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings.

    Chapter 5 Herbert George 1898

  • But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings.

    The Time Machine Herbert George 1895

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