Captain Danton, mystified and bewildered, sought his daughter for an explanation of these strange goings on.
If the master of the house was on guard, he might wash his hands of these hateful ghostly goings on--if ghostly they were--leaving the whole matter to one far stronger and more competent than himself.
Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
He would never understand the meaning of his goings in, or of his goings out, or of his pursuits in life, or of his progress in science.
Alexander, in an inconsolable tone, 'we shall hear of fine goings on, I can see.
In the more remote country districts watchmen were seldom or never employed, and no responsible person conceived it to be his particular business to supervise the comings or goings of the parish-constables.
This explanation had at first set his mind at rest regarding the comings and goingsof this individual.
They knew the Babe in the manger, as He whose goings forth are of old, even from everlasting.
Come forth from the womb of the grave, thou whosegoings forth have been from of old, even from everlasting.
The Friday following the "goings on at Barrington," the tavern was filled by about the same crowd which had been present the Friday evening preceding, and of whose conversation on that occasion, some account was given.
Chebe imposed upon himself certain rules concerning his goings and comings, and his walks abroad.
Among these three households living on the same floor, little Chebe, with her goings and comings, formed the bond of union.
The boy's comings andgoings were almost unnoticed.
If we measure the goings of the Almighty, and His ways (the bottom whereof we see not), we quite mistake God.
He cannot halt; His goings are equal who hath done it.
He spent all his time at the house in Portman Square; he saved its young mistress all the trouble he could; he accompanied her in her goings and comings.
I and all my family thought that; my mother had repeatedly warned me that he was discontented with my goings on; but I counted on his love for me, love since I was a baby; so I played at Paris a jolly game, regardless of money.
But what would Sir Blount say, if he came home and saw the goings on?
As for St. Cleeve, his comings and goingswere of no consequence.
And then that night I had the key to some of the mysterious doings at Bartram-Haugh--the comings and goings in the darkness which had so often startled me--the face of Madame de la Rougierre peeped into the room.
I think she ought to be sent back to Europe where they don't mind such goings on.
And these are the goingsout of the city: on the north side thou shalt measure four thousand and five hundred.
Perfect thou my goingsin thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
They have seen thy goings, O God, thegoings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.
From Taphua it passeth on towards the sea into the valley of reeds, and the goings out thereof are at the most salt sea.
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
I have said little as yet about the Persian pilgrimage which, encamped just outside the walls of Haïl, had all along been a main feature in the goings on of the place.
He was not at the kasr, but in a house he has close to the Mecca gate, where from a little window he can watch unperceived the goings on of the Haj encamped below him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
