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  • Would these torments never cease, these returnings of ancient memories near gone and better forgotten?

    Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • In all the marches and countermarches of the Indians; in all their goings and returnings; in all their wanderings, by day and by night, to and from lands which lie beyond it; their paths are so ordered that none approach near enough to disturb the tiny inhabitants of the hill.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • In all the marches and counter-marches of the Indians, in all their goings and returnings, in all their wanderings by day or by night to and from lands which lie beyond it, their paths are so ordered that none approaches near enough to disturb the tiny inhabitants of the hill.

    Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian Anonymous

  • The swishes became more frequent, the returnings almost doubling on their track.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • "Beason is back," he said, in telling of the returnings and the changes.

    The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

  • The stage thus broken into "a thirty-five-mile dry," with another of forty on top of that, becomes complicated to giddiness in its backings, and fillings, and goings, and comings, and returnings.

    We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

  • "Beason is back," he said, in telling of the returnings and the changes.

    The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

  • "Beason is back," he said, in telling of the returnings and the changes.

    The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

  • And I thought that I would then go and ask him about the sun and moon and stars, and that he would explain to me their comparative swiftness, and their returnings and various states, and how their several affections, active and passive, were all for the best.

    Phædo. Paras. 400-499 Plato 1909

  • There would be returnings to Genoa, and glad welcomings by the little household in the narrow street; in 1472 and 1473 he was with his father at Savona, helping with the wool-weaving and tavern-keeping; possibly also there were interviews with Benincasa, who was at that time living in Genoa, and making his famous sea-charts.

    Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907

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