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  • noun Plural form of soaring.

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Examples

  • And then there are the women who out of an originary love keep secluded spaces ready for the soarings of what is noble & by virtue of this love is indestructible.

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  • And then there are the women who out of an originary love keep secluded spaces ready for the soarings of what is noble & by virtue of this love is indestructible.

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  • And she had been wounded when he told her that she should not allow herself to be mean amidst her soarings.

    Ayala's Angel 2004

  • I observed, however, that she had taken care to clip his wings to prevent all future soarings; a precaution which I mention for the benefit of all those who have truant lovers or wandering husbands.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • I observed, however, that she had taken care to clip his wings to prevent all future soarings; a precaution which I mention for the benefit of all those who have truant lovers or wandering husbands.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • And she had been wounded when he told her that she should not allow herself to be mean amidst her soarings.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • They were too new, too far removed from all he had ever knowledge of, for him to truly believe that they could be successfully used to climb into the sky more than on the short soarings he had already attempted with more than a little bemusement and uneasiness.

    Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

  • Standing on the shore of their Firth of Froth, so to speak, we watch with considerable interest the unique soarings and divings of "Our Own."

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

  • Uninfluenced by the soarings of ambition, he seems to have fixed here, at the outset, a permanent habitation: he rented a cottage at Linshart in the vicinity, which, though consisting only of a single apartment, besides the kitchen, sufficed for the expenditure of his limited emoluments.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • If then the sublimest soarings of the human imagination conveyed to our minds, and clothed in all the beauties of language, are desirable, we shall seldom regret the hours we have expended over Homer or

    Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

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