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- noun Plural form of
plaining .
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Examples
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They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe out-pours,
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It was the “incessant weepings” of his wife, the “piteous plainings of the pretty babes,” that forced him, he says, to exert himself.
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It was the "incessant weepings" of his wife, the "piteous plainings of the pretty babes," that forced him, he says, to exert himself.
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But wives don't weep incessantly in danger, nor are the "piteous plainings of the pretty babes" a feature of shipwreck; I find here a little picture of
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To Joves high throne, and by her plainings drew475
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Strange sounds, too, were heard, or were thought to be, by those whom anxious watching might not have left mentally undisturbed -- sounds, not only of some ringing implement, but also -- so they said -- half-suppressed screams and plainings, such as might have issued from some ghostly engine, overplied.
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This truth taught me my Queen by force of manifold 'plainings
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And anew he commenced his love-plainings, described to her the torments and fierce joys of an unreturned love, which is yet too strong and overpowering to be suppressed.
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I Have so often, my dear Miss Lawson, made you an auditor to my plainings, that common gratitude urges me to refresh your ideas with an account of my present felicity.
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�the despised companion of the man whom she, with puerile plainings, might claim as her own, � the man whom she affects to love by rule and measure! by the line of duty, and who seeks to be so loved in return!
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