Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The droppings of pine-needles under a pinetree or in a pine-wood.
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Examples
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The follow-up then needs to be a lot of detail educating by showing which groups are providing money for Pawlenty to make such ludicrous policy pinings (so that ethical people can avoid doing any business with them EVER).
Think Progress » Pawlenty Falsely Claims ‘Most Credible Economists Say’ Stimulus Is ‘Not Working’ 2010
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His pinings for a purified Germaness was/is functionally equivalent to the overt racism espoused and practiced by the Nazis who had successfully tapped into said zeitgeist.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies 2009
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His 2003 U.S. debut, "Original Pirate Music," attracted white college kids raised on rap but more comfy with the underdog pinings of postpunk rock.
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Yankovic's influence can be seen in the slow-jam pinings of Obama Girl , the cross-cultural pairings that turn Yoda and SpongeBob SquarePants into hardcore rappers, and in the nimble hands of that couch potato who farts out "Bohemian Rhapsody" with his palms (1.8 million YouTube views and counting).
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Full Ibandi creation myth, i await giddily in darkness, and here i was pining away for the fourth in the series that i though you ended so i switched my pinings to a third Lion's blood . . .
If Denzel can't get laid, Obama can't be elected Steven Barnes 2007
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SpudgeBoy – are we seeing the underbelly of the trading of sex for perks with Homosexual pinings because men tend to keep the power inside the group.
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Amidst these pinings, she began to loathe all sustenance; her cheeks grew wan, her bright eyes lost their splendour, the roses vanished from her lips, and her delicate limbs could hardly support their burden; in a word, her sole consolation was limited to the prospect of depositing her sorrows in the grave; and her only wish was to procure a retreat in which she might wait with resignation for that happy period.
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Too often had I witnessed the secret tear and bursting sigh of vain regret, the sullen pinings of discontent, and the mute anguish of despair.
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She has dreams of her wild woods, and pinings after virgin freedom.
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She had seen tragedies of animal life, lonely death-struggles, horrible flights and more horrible captures, she had seen joyous wooings, love-pinings, partings, and bereavements.
The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929
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