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- noun Plural form of
spitting .
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Examples
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Today, we will be experimenting with the viscosity of your various bodily fluids and Greenie will get out his Martha Stewart colouring kit and be injecting your massive luggies and spittings with a variety of entertaining colours which will range from livid yellow to dead slug green ...
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[1844] And again: "I gave My back to the scourges, and My cheeks to the buffetings; I turned not away My face from the shame of spittings; and the Lord was My helper: therefore was I not confounded: but I set My face as a firm rock; and I knew that I should not be ashamed, for He is near that justifieth Me."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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The mode of cure was simple -- the charmer breathed gently on the inflamed part, and then followed a series of little spittings upon and around it.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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One evening we ventured out for a walk in spite of growlings and spittings up above among the crass-looking clouds.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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These facts accepted -- a delicate mother, an unhealthy nurse, an asthma, and constant spittings of blood -- it follows that, even with these serious disadvantages to contend with, a man may live and even enjoy life up to the age of sixty-eight.
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Thrice if thou sing, then speak with spittings three,
The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse
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I poured and he pumped, and there were the usual sounds of a pump resuming activity: gurglings and spittings, suckings and sudden spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its breath — a few more long strokes of the handle, and the water poured.
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The place made the visitor's head reel with the throb, throb, throb of the engines, the rotation of the big wheels, the spinning ball-valves, the occasional spittings of the steam, and over all the deep, unceasing, surging note of the big dynamo.
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They surrounded My sacred head with a crown of thorns; My gracious face was covered with blood and spittings.
Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages
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The place made the visitor's head reel with the throb, throb, throb of the engines, the rotation of the big wheels, the spinning ball-valves, the occasional spittings of the steam, and over all the deep, unceasing, surging note of the big dynamo.
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