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- noun Plural form of
neesing .
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Examples
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By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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In the quarries of Lyme Regis, among the accumulations of a sea of the Liassic period, lay the huge skeleton of the Ichthyosaurus, a warm-blooded marine existence, with huge saucer eyes of singular telescopic power, that gleamed radiant "with the eyelids of the morning," "by whose neesings alight doth shine" -- the true leviathan of Job.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Yet even then the waters were seething and boiling in never-ended tumult about those hideous sunken rocks; and the ocean all around was hoary as with the neesings of a thousand leviathans floundering in its monstrous depths.
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18: 041: 018 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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18: 041: 018 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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