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  • noun Plural form of neighing.

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Examples

  • I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • The quartermaster proved right, for as the cloud came nearer, quite a chorus of bleatings and neighings, and bel-lowings escaped from it, mingled with the loud tones of a human voice, in the shape of cries, and whistles, and vo-ciferations.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • Shouts, neighings, and clashing of armour rose in the air, and clarion flourishes sounded the charge.

    Salammbo 2003

  • It was early dawn, and the air, impregnated with freshest odour, seemed in idle mockery to play with our banners, and bore onwards towards the enemy the music of the bands, the neighings of the horses, and regular step of the infantry.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Mock the fierce peal with neighings; — thus we sped

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • There is a difference observable also in the neighings of horses.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.

    Jeremiah 13. 1999

  • Then human screams joined the horses 'neighings from among the rocks.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • Such people would naturally imagine that the mighty and interminable procession which moved through its street night and day, with its confused roar of shouts and cries, its neighings and bellowings and bleatings and its muffled thunder-tramp, was the one great thing in this world, and themselves somehow the proprietors of it.

    Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967

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