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- noun Plural form of
yawning .
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Ultimately, if you look back at the beginning of warfare, which harkens all the way back to the yawnings of agriculture, when we finally stopped hunting and gathering and started to set up city-states and farms, the origins of warfare are specifically at that point when there was this realization that there were limited resources of things for us to go after.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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Ultimately, if you look back at the beginning of warfare, which harkens all the way back to the yawnings of agriculture, when we finally stopped hunting and gathering and started to set up city-states and farms, the origins of warfare are specifically at that point when there was this realization that there were limited resources of things for us to go after.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars: Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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Ultimately, if you look back at the beginning of warfare, which harkens all the way back to the yawnings of agriculture, when we finally stopped hunting and gathering and started to set up city-states and farms, the origins of warfare are specifically at that point when there was this realization that there were limited resources of things for us to go after.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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Ultimately, if you look back at the beginning of warfare, which harkens all the way back to the yawnings of agriculture, when we finally stopped hunting and gathering and started to set up city-states and farms, the origins of warfare are specifically at that point when there was this realization that there were limited resources of things for us to go after.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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Duchess Gladwin; in the amphitheatre Berthe d'Osigny and Jane Tulle, the latter made famous the day before by the suicide of one of her lovers; in the boxes, Madame Berard de La Malle, her eyes lowered, her long eyelashes shading her pure cheeks; Princess Seniavine, who, looking superb, concealed under her fan panther -- like yawnings; Madame de
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Here, he indulged in a series of scratchings and yawnings, after which he disposed at a gulp of most of the water designed for his matutinal ablutions.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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Duchess Gladwin; in the amphitheatre Berthe d'Osigny and Jane Tulle, the latter made famous the day before by the suicide of one of her lovers; in the boxes, Madame Berard de La Malle, her eyes lowered, her long eyelashes shading her pure cheeks; Princess Seniavine, who, looking superb, concealed under her fan panther -- like yawnings; Madame de
The Red Lily — Complete Anatole France 1884
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The stretches, yawnings and breathings, peculiar to that moment, are never lost by animals, but human beings, with their higher possibilities but greater power of perversion, lose the significance and helpfulness of this primarily instinctive movement.
How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions 1884
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It was waited for with extreme impatience, and many yawnings and other symtoms of an aching void.
Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina 1860
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It stands by itself, hollow, solitary, with its momentary ghastly yawnings, its general repose, and the dark mysteries which, whether open or shut, it conceals in its silent bosom.
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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