gapings

Rhizotome, who lay stooping on the pump, raised his drowsy head, and lazily yawning, by natural sympathy set almost everyone in the ship a-yawning too; then he asked for a remedy against oscitations and gapings.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Rhizotome, who lay stooping on the pump, raised his drowsy head, and lazily yawning, by natural sympathy set almost everyone in the ship a-yawning too; then he asked for a remedy against oscitations and gapings.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

But I know, oh, my boy, I know the alphabet of their vile whisperings and gapings and gesticulations.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

Here are no gapings of Cook's; here no Broadway prowlers.

Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

Vain appeared the gapings of the beast through Christ's divine power, and ye, O God-wise ones, were delivered unhurt, glorifying God.

The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints Anonymous 1899

I know, oh, my boy, I know the alphabet of their vile whisperings and gapings and gesticulations.

The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

Certain attempts at what is called conversion, are but writhings of the passion of self-recommendation; gapings of the greed of power over others; swellings of the ambition to propagate one's own creed, and proselytize victoriously; hungerings to see self reflected in another convinced.

There & Back George MacDonald 1864

Then Bresnan gets four with a mighty pull, all along the ground in the gapings spaces of the leg side.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Then Bresnan gets four with a mighty pull, all along the ground in the gapings spaces of the leg side.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The fêtes, and the gapings to get at these Russes, --

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815