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  • noun Plural form of journeying.

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Examples

  • We have followed her in journeyings often, in perils of sea, in perils of robbers, in perils of the heathen, in perils of the wilderness, in weariness and sorrow, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, and besides these things that were without, bearing those

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • But Kate was near; and besides, a snub from Angela might stop the "journeyings" then and there.

    The Port of Adventure 1889

  • He spoke to them of "journeyings;" of how God was everywhere in the whole earth; of how Abraham had the Lord with him, as he travelled up through a land he knew not, as he dwelt in Padan Aram, as he crossed the desert and came down through the hill-country into

    The Other Girls 1865

  • Know, Negore, if journey be added unto journey of all thy journeyings through this land, thou wouldst not come to the unknown

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • Bryn Terfel, in a rare detour from his current Wagner journeyings, found humour and despair, frustration and embarrassment, tenderness and blind fury in his convincing "outsider" Leporello.

    A tale of two Italian opera cities 2011

  • Would love to see Foster write a nonfiction book about his global journeyings.

    Hey John, I Finished the Ghost Brigades Lou Anders 2007

  • These muleteers, she says, carry with them on their journeyings a flat earthenware dish -- and garlic, olive oil, tomatoes and cucumbers, also dry bread which they crumble.

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Casserole is the new Soup. 2006

  • So Medea told her all she asked — the daughter of Aeetes of the gloomy heart, speaking gently in the Colchian tongue, both of the quest and the journeyings of the heroes, and of their toils in the swift contests, and how she had sinned through the counsels of her much-sorrowing sister, and how with the sons of

    The Argonautica 2008

  • On his journeyings Sigurd soon arrives at the court of

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • For this reason, I shall confine myself to a very brief account of our journeyings in the latter territory.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

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